Archer and The Big Sleep represent views of people that work in either spy agencies or independent detective agencies. Both pieces of literature deal with social problems that the world has led us to believe are true when dealing working with criminals. Archer and The Big Sleep have very different main characters but both have situations in them that they have to deal with involving alcohol, guns, and work relationships. The way the situations are handled in Archer and The Big Sleep are very different partially because of the time that both were released and the agendas of the main characters. You will see how the country has changed portraying these types of characters over the seven decades between the releases of Chandler’s The Big Sleep
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In The Big Sleep, Marlowe is offered and consumes alcohol when he first meets General Sternwood in the Sternwood estate. Drinking Brandy when talking to people was a cultural tradition that happened back in the 1930s when The Big Sleep was released. This tradition is always seems to be brought to the forefront in detective literature because the detectives always drink when they meet new people but they also drink while they are working on the case in the privacy of their own office. In the television show Archer, the main character Archer, who is a spy for an international spy agency ISIS, is always drinking alcohol regardless of the situation that he may find himself in. This still hits the same culture that was discussed in The Big Sleep even though in Archer is way more inappropriate during his time that he drinks and the amount that he drinks at a given time. The alcohol culture is something that has always been important in the detective and spy literature and even though in The Big Sleep and Archer the main characters treat alcohol differently they both live up to this cultural …show more content…
Detectives and spies are supposed to be able to maintain a professional relationship with their client, which includes not sleeping with them when they have the temptation to or when the client offers to have sex with them. In The Big Sleep, we see this happen very early in the novel with Carmen Sternwood and Marlowe. It is almost immediate that once Marlowe walks through the door of the Sternwood estate, Carmen shows up and starts flirting with him calling him “cute” but also herself “cute” which plays right in to her ego. Marlowe maintains his professional relationship throughout the whole novel even though the Sternwood daughters have tried to tempt him in to sleep with them. This is something that happens in majority of the detective literature that I have been exposed to which makes these detectives have a strong personality. In Archer we see the exact opposite thing happen throughout the entire series. Archer is a man who is very upfront about what he wants from women and even if they are someone that he works with or is working for he is not afraid to say that he wants to sleep with them. This is something that has changed from the 1930s where sex was not talked about as often and was more private, whereas now it seems like sex is something that is brought up in every television show or most conversations. This culture change is hard to pinpoint the exact time
In The Big Sleep, Marlowe is offered and consumes alcohol when he first meets General Sternwood in the Sternwood estate. Drinking Brandy when talking to people was a cultural tradition that happened back in the 1930s when The Big Sleep was released. This tradition is always seems to be brought to the forefront in detective literature because the detectives always drink when they meet new people but they also drink while they are working on the case in the privacy of their own office. In the television show Archer, the main character Archer, who is a spy for an international spy agency ISIS, is always drinking alcohol regardless of the situation that he may find himself in. This still hits the same culture that was discussed in The Big Sleep even though in Archer is way more inappropriate during his time that he drinks and the amount that he drinks at a given time. The alcohol culture is something that has always been important in the detective and spy literature and even though in The Big Sleep and Archer the main characters treat alcohol differently they both live up to this cultural …show more content…
Detectives and spies are supposed to be able to maintain a professional relationship with their client, which includes not sleeping with them when they have the temptation to or when the client offers to have sex with them. In The Big Sleep, we see this happen very early in the novel with Carmen Sternwood and Marlowe. It is almost immediate that once Marlowe walks through the door of the Sternwood estate, Carmen shows up and starts flirting with him calling him “cute” but also herself “cute” which plays right in to her ego. Marlowe maintains his professional relationship throughout the whole novel even though the Sternwood daughters have tried to tempt him in to sleep with them. This is something that happens in majority of the detective literature that I have been exposed to which makes these detectives have a strong personality. In Archer we see the exact opposite thing happen throughout the entire series. Archer is a man who is very upfront about what he wants from women and even if they are someone that he works with or is working for he is not afraid to say that he wants to sleep with them. This is something that has changed from the 1930s where sex was not talked about as often and was more private, whereas now it seems like sex is something that is brought up in every television show or most conversations. This culture change is hard to pinpoint the exact time