Watson Learned The Trick 'And Sherlock Holmes And The Blue Carbuncle'

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Hunter Tingle

In the Stories, “How Watson Learned the Trick” and “Sherlock Holmes and the Blue Carbuncle.” Watson’s Perspective kept changing. For example in one passage Watson thinks of himself as dumb, but in another he thinks of himself as intelligent.

In the passage, “How Watson Learned the Trick.” He thinks of himself as intelligent and thinks he is as good as Sherlock Holmes and doubts Sherlock Holmes. He then gives examples of how he is similar even though the accusations are wrong and says Sherlock Holmes’s skills are easily acquired. “Your Methods, Said Watson Severely, are easily acquired.” He then goes as far to say that the tricks are superficial as stated in the passage. “Yes, Holmes, I was thinking how superficial are the

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