![]() ![]() ![]() Critics have not been sure how they should interpret this work. It is hardly credible that all seven members of a secret organization could be police officers. Although The Man Who Was Thursday does demonstrate Chesterton’s ability to think clearly in order to resolve a problem, the solution to this paradox is so preposterous that many readers have wondered why Chesterton wrote this book, whose ending is so odd. This paradox is resolved when Chesterton explains that all seven “anarchists” are, in fact, detectives assigned separately to investigate this nonexistent threat to society. ![]() At first, this group seems strange to Syme because he does not understand what the anarchists wish to accomplish. Syme replaces the man who had been Thursday. In The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton created a detective named Gabriel Syme, who infiltrates an anarchist group in which each of the seven members is named for a different day of the week. Chesterton ( – 14 June 1936) had already published one book of detective fiction. Before he began writing his Father Brown stories, G. ![]()
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