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    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,…

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    John Paul. "Dashiell Hammett: Individualism in Transition." Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. Jefferson: McFarland (2012): 54-69. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 317. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. Athanasourelis’s article depicts Sam Spade’s individuality through his actions leading up to Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s conviction. Sam’s initial intentions are to help Brigid avoid the police. Upon coming to…

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    “Private Eye” or tough “Hard-boiled” private investigator detective fiction is the classification most dominated by American writers (Mansfield-Kelly 205). One of the founders and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly…

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    “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction” (Erich Fromm). In The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man written by Dashiell Hammett, Hammett displays the high increase of criminal activity that takes place during the prohibition era in the United States. In Hammett’s novels, the characters’ monetary greed leads to negative consequences. As a result of their monetary greed, the characters face death, in-humanity, and…

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    A classic detective story from the 1920s, The Maltese Falcon continues to prevail today as a famous and true mystery novel. The characters within the book seem authentic, each with quirks and flaws nicking their corners, producing realistic people for the readers to enjoy. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this story contains an element of credibility to the way the detectives act, as the author himself worked as a detective during the 1910s. Nevertheless, given the era in which it was written,…

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    Simmons Mr. Smith Block 1 15 September 2015 Sam Spade was Misused and Abused A victim is a person that is tricked or swindled. In the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, deception plays a big role. Throughout the story Sam Spade is deceived and taken advantage of in the story by Bridgid O'Shaughnessy. She is a compulsive liar and lies about almost everything in order to get an advantage of receiving the falcon. She is not completely honest with her relationship between her and the…

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    Wise explains that she told him about the attempted divorce, and Spade interrupts, saying “‘I know all that’…‘You can skip it. Get to the part I don’t know’” (Hammett 110). In this declaration, Spade indicates that he lacks knowledge regarding Iva’s life and whereabouts. Spade goes to Wise with the intention of learning information; he doesn’t infer or intuit or analyze evidence like Dupin. Spade’s method of gaining knowledge is through asking questions. This method of gaining knowledge hinders…

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    suspect in a crime cannot be detained in a jail until they are convicted. These rights are guaranteed in the Fourth and Fifth Amendment of the United States of America. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a novel that can be used in a government class to teach students about the Fourth and Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment is a provision that relates to the criminal law. It guarantees the due process law to everyone and the right not to be forced to answer questions from the authority…

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    An Analysis of the characters in Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” Dashiell Hammett’s novel “The Maltese Falcon” takes place in the port city of San Francisco, California. Published at the beginning of the economic crisis of the Great Depression in 1930.The novel carries out aspects of lust, greed, betrayal, and the suspense of murder, as all characters are after wealth that follows a prestige falcon artifact. As a murder mystery in crime fiction the novel presents all aspects of…

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    Tough Guys: Masculinity in Hard-Boiled Fiction Hard-boiled fiction initially emerged in the pulp magazines, such as the Black Mask, in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties. The genre originated through the writings of Dashiell Hammett and further developed by the work of Raymond Chandler. Hard-boiled fiction is often acclaimed as an icon of American masculinity in modern literature. The conception of masculinity represented by the protagonist in these narratives became popular amongst…

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