Raymond Chandler

Some literature portray life as a woman in Los Angeles more cynically than others. Janet Fitch, a Los Angeles author, wrote White Oleander which portrayed the raw and real lives of various woman throughout Los Angeles as unique individuals. In Raymond Chandler’s dark novel “The Big Sleep” Chandler’s descriptions of characters illustrates the misogynistic nature of Los Angeles society in the 1930’s. Although the nineteenth amendment had been passed ten years earlier, women continued to fight for

In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep, a private detective is trying to unravel a blackmailing case for a dying millionaire, General Sternwood. Philip Marlowe, the detective, finds that the case not only involves blackmail, but also homicide. Set and written in 1930’s America, the economic devastation of the Great Depression has a significant influence on the book’s plot, and showcases character’s struggle to retain honor and virtue in a world that revolves around profit-seeking delinquency and

cycle of corruption within the society, where if one had money, they could pay the money to the ‘right’ people who were in need of it to find a way that the wealthy could get away with their crimes, which was exactly what others were chasing. Raymond Chandler challenges and reflects upon these beliefs in his novel, “The Big Sleep”. In a society where greed is developed in

In Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, detective Philip Marlowe is hired by the Sternwood family to deal with a blackmailer. Later, Marlowe’s case twists into a more complex assignment involving murders, pornography, missing persons and unknown culprits. Throughout the story, Marlowe encounters several characters that play a role in the case. Two sisters, named Vivian and Carmen, and their father, the General, make up the last of the wealthy Sternwood family. The general explains to Marlowe, that Rusty

Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled detective novel, The Big Sleep is a story of murder mysteries, revelations, blackmailing and lies that the private detective Philip Marlowe gets caught up in. Marlowe is a private detective who is hired by the millionaire General Sternwood to tackle a blackmail attempt on his one of the two wild daughters, Carmen Sternwood by a man named Arthur Geiger. Arthur Geiger is a bookseller; therefore, Marlowe begins to investigate about his bookstore. Consequently, he meets

The Big Sleep (Chandler, 1939) and Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie, 2009) are examples of crime fiction, a genre based on the concept of a detective solving a crime to meet a just end. The crime fiction genre developed its own sub-genres in response to the changing needs of societies, which allowed its language features to position the audience and instil beliefs upon them. Crime fiction has the ability to privilege different sections of society, and is able to display a discourse relating to prominent

For my independent reading assignment, this quarter I read The Big Sleep by famous crime novelist, Raymond Chandler. The book took place in America in the early 1930s where private detective Phillip Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood because of the recent blackmailing of his teenage daughter. Sternwood played a role in the American oil industry which he profited a large amount of money from the business. Arthur Geiger is responsible for the blackmailing of Sternwood’s daughter. One night detective

existential view, the hero of this genre embodies a similar ideal in his character. Existentialism pivots around the idea that an individual wanders - often disoriented - in an absurd and meaningless world. In his novel, The Big Sleep, author Raymond Chandler introduces protagonist Philip Marlowe as this new existential hero. Marlowe is a detective who is loyal to his client and his client only. He possesses the qualities of an antihero who is not bound by the law, yet fights against the criminal

Raymond Chandler was known to be one of the most prominent writers that revolved around the novel writing of detective fiction. Writing crime stories would not be as advanced today without his literary contribution to American style literature. His most famous novel, “The Big Sleep,” established a highly prestigious artistic level; he would go on to forever change how detective fiction novels affected society, and how people view society from their own understanding. He introduced an aspect that

as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.” These were the kinds of phrases that Raymond Chandler, a great American author of the early twentieth century, used to captivate and enthral a wide audience. He used this skill to navigate and lead the newly-emerging mystery genre during the Modernist Movement. Chandler was born on July 23, 1888 in Chicago, but was educated in England, France, and Germany. Chandler published 27 poems and wrote for English newspapers before he returned to the United