This shift in entertainment towards authenticity changes the tone of the work, but also allows the bridges the gap in the social caste system of the reader. No longer is this entertainment just for the upper class, but the anyone can identify with Chandler’s Everyman, which brings us to the reality insightful character of Detective Marlowe (MacShane).
Marlowe is an ideal. According to J.O. Tate, the name of Marlowe refers to William Shakespeare’s contemporary and rival author, Christopher Marlowe, “the poet and tragedian whose mysterious and violent death is today suggestive of a scene from a thriller” (258). Marlow is Chandler’s Everyman, a modern day chivalrous knight begun in Chandler’s childhood of classical studies. William Marling …show more content…
The post war disillusionment of authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound can be seen in Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, as Marlowe realizes the corruption he is fighting is not a criminal, but society itself (Moss). In this way, Chandler’s characters mirror the undertow of corruption still prevalent in society today, making his work timeless. Chandler divulges his writing theory explaining the reasoning behind his characterization verses action ratio: “My theory was that readers just thought they cared about nothing but the action … The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description" (Moss). This is one of the main reason the work is so valuable, because it promotes the integrity of the author and characters as connected to reality, however skewed the reality might be. Chandler illustrates how deep the corruption goes, by including “those catering to the vices of the wealthy--pornographers, dope doctors, nightclub operators, bogus spiritualists--play increasingly larger roles”, which create an overwhelming and inescapable web of deceit within the mind of the reader
Marlowe is an ideal. According to J.O. Tate, the name of Marlowe refers to William Shakespeare’s contemporary and rival author, Christopher Marlowe, “the poet and tragedian whose mysterious and violent death is today suggestive of a scene from a thriller” (258). Marlow is Chandler’s Everyman, a modern day chivalrous knight begun in Chandler’s childhood of classical studies. William Marling …show more content…
The post war disillusionment of authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound can be seen in Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, as Marlowe realizes the corruption he is fighting is not a criminal, but society itself (Moss). In this way, Chandler’s characters mirror the undertow of corruption still prevalent in society today, making his work timeless. Chandler divulges his writing theory explaining the reasoning behind his characterization verses action ratio: “My theory was that readers just thought they cared about nothing but the action … The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description" (Moss). This is one of the main reason the work is so valuable, because it promotes the integrity of the author and characters as connected to reality, however skewed the reality might be. Chandler illustrates how deep the corruption goes, by including “those catering to the vices of the wealthy--pornographers, dope doctors, nightclub operators, bogus spiritualists--play increasingly larger roles”, which create an overwhelming and inescapable web of deceit within the mind of the reader