Often referred to as doppelgangers, these manifestations of a person are often designed to reveal a truth or an attribute about the subject. ... 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." ... "Yet this superiority -- even this equality -- was in truth acknowledged by no one but myself." ... He "weep[...

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