Dutilleul's Main Characters In Durtre In Paris

The story is set in Montmartre in Paris. The main character is a man called Dutilleul who discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls. This is worrying for Dutilleul who seeks help from his doctor. Dutilleul’s boss leaves for another job. The new boss and Dutilleul don’t have the best relationship, with the situation seeming troubling from the beginning. Dutilleul distances himself from using his power. Dutilleul’s outlook about his ability to walk through walls changes when he starts to receive a hard time from his boss. He decides to firstly scare his boss before he starts to use his power for crime. Dutilleul signs off with the name “The Lone Wolf” for each crime he commits with red chalk. Dutilleul gets arrested but breaks out

He became fed up with having the power of being able to walk through walls. It didn’t matter how thick the walls were, he still found them easy to pass through. He dreamt of trying to pass through the pyramids in Egypt. Dutilleul didn’t have a goatee anymore and by wearing glasses his friends would even fail to recognise him. Only one man, the painter who lived near Dutilleul was able to recognise who he really was. One day Dutilleul meets the painter on the street and he uses slang to admit that he recognizes Dutilleul.
Originally Dutilleul didn’t want people to know that he was “The Lone Wolf”. However, throughout the story his outlook changes. Dutilleul hears his fellow colleagues both talking and praising “The Lone Wolf” and eventually he feels the urge to admit that it’s actually him. The news is greeted by his colleagues with laughter which embarrasses Dutilleul. Dutilleul also changes his appearance so that his friends cannot even recognize him but then the painter recognizes him and says it in public.
Dutilleul’s boss leaves and is replaced. The new boss and Dutilleul don’t strike up a good relationship from the beginning. The boss named Mr. Lécuyer gave Dutilleul an awful time at the beginning until Dutilleul began to frighten his boss by sticking his head through the wall and talking to

to be very bright as he doesn’t feel the need to explore with his new power. After this all happens Dutilleul’s new boss is appointed and his outlook changes. Dutilleul becomes more open to the idea of having fun with his power around his boss. This in turn leads to Dutilleul’s experimenting becoming serious. He beings to rob banks and shops simply because he can.
At the end he begins to pay visits to a married woman who he falls in love with. Although when attempting to leave through her wall in what ended up being the last time, he got stuck. Dutilleul’s morals seem to change as the story goes on.
This story is written in third person narrative. Since there is a narrator we get the overall view of what goes on in the story. If it was written in first person there would be a chance of biased views being present. The narrator tells us the story as it has already occurred so it’s in the past tense. We can see it is written in third person when the narrator says “Il portait un binocle…” (in the fourth line of the story). However, if one of the guards or the new boss were telling the story or even Dutilleul himself the story may vary, but we are led to believe the narrator is telling the truth.