Red Wind In Chandler's Trouble Is My Business

Red Wind: Short Story Review “Red Wind” is a short story from Raymond Thornton Chandler’s novel collection “Trouble is My Business”. Chandler is a famous mystery thriller writer, and his writing style and idea have significant affections to today’s detective stories. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although he wanted to be a good writer, his mother and grandmother insisted him to be a civil servant. After having an oil business for many years, he was fired because of drunkenness and absence. In order to make a living, he began to write some novels by imitating his favorite writer’s styles. In 1933, his first detective story was contributed to “Black Mask”. From 1933 to 1939, he wrote many short stories and “Red Wind” was in one of them. The whole story began with the description of the wind blowing from Santa Ana. By this taken, Chandler wanted to use the red wind to analyze the murder. On a late night in the bar, there has three people, the leading character: John Dalmas, bar tender: Lew Petrolle and a drunk: Al Tessilore. A fellow Waldo …show more content…
It is also used as a genre of crime film and fiction. In film noir, a producer will use the dark color of the lighting design. The contract between shadow on the screen and white light causes noir film. The noir genre using in “Red Wind” is the contract between the killer Al Tessilore and Waldo, and the private detector Dalmas. Al Tessilore and Waldo represent the black and Dalmas represents white. They kill the people without thinking. However, Dalmas can adventure his life on finding the truth. What’s more, the author uses the wind to describe the environment in many places. After the author describing the wind, something important will happen later. The wind will create a nervous atmosphere to attract readers follow the plot of the story. The author uses a murder to open the story and the main character tells the story in his perspective by using noir