The Midnight Visitor Class 10

Ausable is a detective and the protagonist of Class 10 Midnight Visitor. He is smart, fat and intelligent and usually talks in an American accent. He is a secret spy and deals with cases related to espionage.

There are various themes in Midnight Visitor Class 10 such as the theme of how appearances deceive. Fowler’s idea of a spy is completely different from how Ausable turns out to be and the story also breaks the stereotypes around detectives as we expect them to look sharp, slim and tall while they can fat and sloppy while also smart and intelligent at the same time.

Ausable is very different from other secret agents according to Fowler. Unlike other secret agents, Ausable was fat, noticeable and had a thick American accent which made him stand out in Paris. Even though he had migrated from America to Paris some twenty years ago, his French and German skills were average and his American accent was very prominent. Ausable was also self-aware and he even tells Fowler that he understands that he feels disappointed after meeting him because his life was not like other secret agents’.

Fowler was the young writer following Ausable, the secret agent in France for an exciting story. Initially, the writer feels cheated and disappointed by Ausable and his dull work but when the two enter Ausable’s apartment to collect a secret report, the evening gets exciting. To Fowler’s shock, Ausable is threatened by another secret agent called Max while Ausable keeps his cool and manipulates the intruder into jumping out of the window and saving their lives. His authentic thrill of the day was when Ausable calmly tricks the other agent into thinking the police had come to check on the agent but it was actually the waiter Ausable had called.

Max was the other secret agent who broke into Ausable’s small hotel room on the sixth floor by using a passkey. Max is defined as a slender man who is of average height and had fox-like features.

Ausable claimed that Max got in through the balcony which belonged to the next apartment. This was the second time according to Ausable that someone broke into his apartment using the balcony. Ausable complains that this time, he will demand the management to do something about this balcony.

Ausable was a clever and calm secret agent who mentions the balcony to Max from the start in order to convince him that the balcony did exist and could be an escape route from his apartment. When Ausable states that the police is outside because he knew someone would threaten him because of the secret report, Max panics and decides to hide out on the balcony to avoid the police. Ausable created an extremely convincing story by explaining in detail how the balcony was a nuisance to him, how it was attached to this room and the original structure of the two adjunct rooms and the common balcony. All these details successfully convince the reader as well as Fowler and Max that the balcony is real.