In his opening lines, Strand apparently gives the culmination of details for the reader to understand the setting of the story, "A man has been standing, in front of my house, for days." ... The verification that the two characters in Strand's "The Tunnel " are meant to be a shadow of one character or their doppelganger, is not immediately obvious but is merely hinted toward in the final lines, "I feel I'm being watched, and sometimes I hear, a man's voice, but nothing is done, and I have been waiting for days." These words echo in the mind of the reader as the opening lines are...

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