[
 {
  "chunk": 304,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "After an epigraph about conscience as a spectre in one's path, the narrator, hiding his real name because it is infamous throughout the world, laments himself as an outcast dead to honour and hope.",
  "predicament": "A man whose name has become a byword for disgrace hides it even as he begins to tell his own story."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 305,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He will not recount his later crimes, only the single event that made him fall all at once from petty vice to monstrous evil; near death, he wants pity and to be thought a slave of fate.",
  "predicament": "A man near death wants others to believe his downfall was forced on him by something he could not resist."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 306,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "From a family of excitable temperament, he grew wilful and ungoverned, and his weak parents let him rule the house; he recalls his first school in an old, dreamlike English village.",
  "predicament": "A wilful child whose weak parents cannot control him grows up used to having his own way in everything."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 307,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He lingers fondly on the prison-like walled school, and on the paradox of the principal, benign in the pulpit on Sunday and a stern tyrant with the cane at school.",
  "predicament": "A boy is puzzled that the stern master who beats him on weekdays is a gentle-faced preacher in church."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 308,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He recalls the massive spiked gate, opened only three times a week, the bare gravel playground, and the front garden entered only at arrivals and departures.",
  "predicament": "A boy shut behind high walls for years finds every rare opening of the gate full of mystery."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 309,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The old house was a maze of rooms and steps, so intricate that in five years he never learned exactly where his own dormitory lay.",
  "predicament": "A boy lives for years in a building so confusing that he never learns his way around it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 310,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He describes the long, low schoolroom with the principal's dreaded enclosure, the ushers' boxes, and endless carved, battered desks.",
  "predicament": "A boy remembers the dread with which he and his fellows regarded the enclosure where their master sat."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 311,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Within those walls his childhood was intensely vivid; the school's small routine was a whole world of passionate excitement that he remembers sharply.",
  "predicament": "A man remembers the small world of his schooldays as more intense and vivid than anything that came after."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 312,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "His imperious temper gave him mastery over his schoolmates, except for one boy of the same name who alone competed with him and refused to submit to his will.",
  "predicament": "A boy used to ruling his companions meets the one rival who refuses to bow to him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 313,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He secretly fears this rival, whose effortless equality seems superiority, though no one else notices; the rival thwarts him in private, with an unwelcome affectionate, patronising air.",
  "predicament": "Someone is quietly but constantly thwarted by a rival no one else seems to notice, and secretly fears him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 314,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Rumour makes them brothers; the narrator later learns they share a birthday; he cannot quite hate the rival, feeling a mix of animosity, respect, fear and curiosity; they are inseparable.",
  "predicament": "Someone cannot decide whether he hates or admires the rival who shadows him, and cannot stay away from him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 315,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "His attacks on the rival take the form of banter and pranks, which rarely succeed; the only weak spot he finds is a defect that keeps the rival from speaking above a whisper.",
  "predicament": "Someone keeps trying to get the better of a rival who cannot be mocked, and stoops to attacking his one weakness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 316,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The rival retaliates by exploiting the narrator's hatred of his own common name, which the rival shares and which causes their affairs to be confused.",
  "predicament": "A man is galled that someone else shares his name and his place, so that the two are always confused."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 317,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The resemblance extends to height and features; the rival sets out to imitate his dress, walk, manner and voice, until his whisper becomes the very echo of the narrator's own.",
  "predicament": "A man finds a rival copying his dress, manner and voice so exactly that he feels mocked by his own reflection."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 318,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The imitation torments him, the more because no one else seems to notice it; the rival seems content to sting him alone.",
  "predicament": "A man is tormented by a mockery that only he can see, which makes it impossible to complain of it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 319,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The rival constantly hints advice, always in the right, which the narrator increasingly hates; he admits he would have been better had he listened; his feelings harden into hatred.",
  "predicament": "A person keeps getting unwanted advice from someone who is always right, and comes to hate him for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 320,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "In a violent quarrel the narrator fancies he has known the rival from infancy or before; the rival sleeps in a closet-like room of his own.",
  "predicament": "In the middle of a quarrel a man has the eerie feeling that he has known his rival since before memory began."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 321,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Creeping in at night to play a cruel prank, he lights the sleeping rival's face and is seized by horror at what he sees there; he flees the school that night for good.",
  "predicament": "A man sneaking up on a rival to harm him sees the rival's sleeping face and flees in horror."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 322,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Months later, at a new school, he has laughed off his fright and plunges into reckless dissipation that washes away every serious memory.",
  "predicament": "A man who fled something he could not explain persuades himself it was imagination, and loses himself in dissipation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 323,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "After three years of vice, he holds an all-night carouse; at dawn, as he proposes a profane toast, a servant says someone urgently wants him in the hall.",
  "predicament": "A man at the height of a drunken revel is suddenly called away by someone who will not wait."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 324,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "In the dim hall a youth dressed exactly like him seizes his arm and whispers his name in warning, in the familiar tone that sobers him instantly, and vanishes.",
  "predicament": "A man caught in the middle of his worst behaviour hears his own name whispered in warning by someone just like him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 325,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He cannot learn who the rival is or what he wants, only that he left the old school the day the narrator fled; soon he goes to a great university and outdoes all in extravagant vice.",
  "predicament": "A man shaken by a warning soon forgets it, and throws himself into even worse excesses with his family's money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 326,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He secretly becomes a card-sharp, cheating weak fellow students, protected by his reputation for generous, dashing folly.",
  "predicament": "A wealthy young man secretly cheats his friends, safe because no one would suspect someone so open-handed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 327,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He marks a rich, dim young nobleman as his victim, lets him win at first, and arranges a party where the game seems to arise by chance.",
  "predicament": "A cheat carefully sets up a wealthy dupe, letting him win at first and arranging for the game to seem his idea."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 328,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Late at night he draws the drunken nobleman into doubling the stakes and quadruples his debt; the victim turns deathly pale, and it emerges that he is utterly ruined.",
  "predicament": "A cheat finishes off his victim and learns too late that he has ruined him completely, in front of everyone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 329,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "In the embarrassed silence, the doors burst open, blowing out the candles; a cloaked stranger whispers that the winner is a cheat and tells them where to search him.",
  "predicament": "A cheat, at the moment of his triumph, is exposed in front of everyone by a stranger who knows exactly where to look."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 330,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The marked cards are found on him; his host, handing him a fur cloak from the floor, tells him with cold contempt to leave the university.",
  "predicament": "A man exposed as a cheat is met not with rage but with silent contempt, and told to leave."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 331,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He realises the cloak is an exact copy of his own unique one, left by the stranger; covering his shame, he takes it and flees abroad the next morning.",
  "predicament": "A disgraced man finds that the one who exposed him wore an exact copy of his own clothes, and flees."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 332,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Everywhere he goes, the rival steps in to frustrate his schemes; he flees to the ends of the earth in vain, and notices the rival only ever blocks what would have done harm.",
  "predicament": "A man cannot escape someone who follows him everywhere and blocks every wrong he tries to do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 333,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He notes the rival always hides his face, but he knows him for his school rival, who has thwarted his ambition, revenge, love and avarice.",
  "predicament": "A man pursued for years by a masked figure who thwarts his every scheme knows perfectly well who it is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 334,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Long submissive out of awe, he now drinks heavily, begins to resist, fancies the rival weakens as he grows firmer, and resolves to be enslaved no longer.",
  "predicament": "A man who has always yielded to the one who checks him resolves, in drink, to throw off that control for good."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 335,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "At a masked ball, drunk and pursuing a young wife, he feels the whisper at his ear, seizes the masked rival dressed exactly as himself, and drags him into a side room, threatening to stab him.",
  "predicament": "A man about to do wrong is stopped once more by his double, and in fury drags him aside to finish it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 336,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "He runs the rival through again and again; looking up, he sees what seems a mirror with his own bloodied image, but it is the dying rival, identical to him in every line.",
  "predicament": "A man who kills the one who always restrained him finds that he has struck down his own reflection."
 }
]