The Father of Hard Boiled Detective Stories:
In 1894, “a legend wait for it dairy, legendary” person was born, yes I just quoted from How I Met Your Mother but Dashiell Hammett deserves this type of introduction. Dashiell Hammett is considered to be one of the most influential author of his own time period. Hammett has written only five novels; Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man. Hammett also wrote over 80 short stories in his life time, Hammett also worked in a magazine and later in life became a screenplay writer. Hammett’s short stories, movies and novels has greatly influenced the works as many writers such as Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Robert B. Parker, James Ellroy, …show more content…
In the book he is very defiant toward the law; he gives the readers the impression that he is willing to break the law if he has too. His reputation as a detective in the book projects an image of corruptibility. In the story Spade is known to have a very skeptical in his relations with women. At the start of the novel, he has been having an affair with Iva Archer, his partner wife. After Miles Archer's death, Spade makes it clear that he was just toying with her. He never fully trusts his client Brigid O'Shaughnessy and he took precautions against her possible betrayal (Hammett, …show more content…
Realism in a novel is a strong emphasis on the truthful representation of the actual in fiction. Hammett and America wanted a more realistic story in detective fiction instead of the traditional omnificent characters, and leisurely pace. Who likes boring slow place novels anyway? So Hammett created the realistic model that involved a style of detective fiction that emphasis both the main and supporting characters. In this model Hammett uses actions and plot twists in his novel mixed with rapid-fire dialogue. This realist works are often found in some of Hammett’s earliest works, such as the first of his thirty-five stories that feature an operative for the Continental Detective Agency, known to the reader as the Continental Op. Hammett also made his stories off of murders and crime that could happen in the real world instead of fantasies and myths. Hammett adopted a tone to his works, sustaining an atmosphere in which the readers’ questions outnumber the answers and no one can be trusted. The Dain Curse was written in time period of chaos, published in 1928 the story related to the American public by the corruption of drugs and
In 1894, “a legend wait for it dairy, legendary” person was born, yes I just quoted from How I Met Your Mother but Dashiell Hammett deserves this type of introduction. Dashiell Hammett is considered to be one of the most influential author of his own time period. Hammett has written only five novels; Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man. Hammett also wrote over 80 short stories in his life time, Hammett also worked in a magazine and later in life became a screenplay writer. Hammett’s short stories, movies and novels has greatly influenced the works as many writers such as Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Robert B. Parker, James Ellroy, …show more content…
In the book he is very defiant toward the law; he gives the readers the impression that he is willing to break the law if he has too. His reputation as a detective in the book projects an image of corruptibility. In the story Spade is known to have a very skeptical in his relations with women. At the start of the novel, he has been having an affair with Iva Archer, his partner wife. After Miles Archer's death, Spade makes it clear that he was just toying with her. He never fully trusts his client Brigid O'Shaughnessy and he took precautions against her possible betrayal (Hammett, …show more content…
Realism in a novel is a strong emphasis on the truthful representation of the actual in fiction. Hammett and America wanted a more realistic story in detective fiction instead of the traditional omnificent characters, and leisurely pace. Who likes boring slow place novels anyway? So Hammett created the realistic model that involved a style of detective fiction that emphasis both the main and supporting characters. In this model Hammett uses actions and plot twists in his novel mixed with rapid-fire dialogue. This realist works are often found in some of Hammett’s earliest works, such as the first of his thirty-five stories that feature an operative for the Continental Detective Agency, known to the reader as the Continental Op. Hammett also made his stories off of murders and crime that could happen in the real world instead of fantasies and myths. Hammett adopted a tone to his works, sustaining an atmosphere in which the readers’ questions outnumber the answers and no one can be trusted. The Dain Curse was written in time period of chaos, published in 1928 the story related to the American public by the corruption of drugs and