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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I think Doyle saw him as a hero, if that makes sense. There's a lot of "poor, tormented soul" overtones in the text as I read it, and implications that any right-thinking man would have done the same thing.
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I disagree. I see it more as: criminals have more interesting personalities and motives than the innocent. I don't think that even Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as the good guy. He just looks at the world as a puzzle, with the bad guys being the more striking pieces.