To make a correct conclusion, let's make clear who is a romantic hero? In my opinion, a romantic hero is usually someone innocent and carefree, separate from the masses, and is almost always on some type of journey. And a pioneer is a person who is a person who goes first or does something first. So, was Auguste Dupin a pioneer? My answer is positive. To my mind, Dupin is a significant figure in the …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…unusual, for that is what makes these figures so interesting for the reader. So, the romantic hero of the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was a pioneer of the protagonists of the detective genre. He is the first, he is a "pathfinder". That is why we should be grateful to Edgar Allan Poe for giving us the detective genre and making our lives more interesting, colorful and with a shadow of mystery.