oods with a madman, and finds himself increasingly drawn into a treasure of a story along the way.
My reading is that the story is an allegory of what goes on in the mind when it sees something that it does not understand. Legrand is the part of the mind that wraps itself around the issue and fights with it until it comes upon a theory of the answer. The doctor is the mental reasoning that rejects that such a thing even exists until it sees proof of it, then verifies what the theory explains. Jupiter is the nagging connection between the two.
In an article published in the periodical Poe Studies in 1971, Levi St. Armand B
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