Character Analysis Of Detective Spade

There are so many ways and reasons that people can change. You can change for love, passion, or to fit in. There are many more things that can change a person. I’m taking two stories and looking if the characters changed or stayed the same.

In Trifles, Susan Glaspell debates the roles between men and women during a period where a debate was not widely conducted. Glaspell wrote Trifles in the early 1900s—a time when feminism was just getting started. In this play, Glaspell shows us her perspective on the roles of men and women and how she believes the situation would play out. Trifles seems like another murder mystery on the surface, but the play has a much more profound meaning behind it. Glaspell presents the idea that men and women analyze situations differently, and how these situations are resolved based on how we interpret them. Research shows that women’s brains “may be optimized for combining analytical and intuitive thinking.” On the other hand, male brains are predominately “optimized for motor skills and actions” (Lewis). In the play, this research shows true when the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, analyze details rather than looking at the apparent, physical evidence, and they find out the motive of the murder. The men, on the other hand, look at broader evidence that does not lead to any substantial conclusion. When Glaspell was writing this play, she wanted the women to be the real instigators, the ones that would end up solving the mystery. While the men in the story laugh at the ‘trifles’ that women worry about, these details mean a great deal in Glaspell’s eyes. Glaspell presents the idea what men and women are different in the way they live their lives through detail.

Seeton is the lead character in the British cozy mystery series by Hamilton Crane. Even as three different authors have written the novels over the years, the lead character in the series maintains her character and MO. Miss Seeton is a character that can best be described as an absent-minded woman that draws informative sketches that help Inspector Delphic and his sidekick Bob Ranger in solving crimes in their town. Being the lady that she is, she always finds herself in trouble for her ladylike actions and the eerie accuracy of her drawings. In the prequel to the series, Hamilton Crane looks into Miss Seeton’s past by explaining her psychic talent for knowing impossible things. Seeton is a spinster who lived during World War II England. She lived in fear of spies and rationing, lived in a house draped with blackout material with windows taped and boarded over, skylights pulled out, and wore a gas mask to go work in a plane factory. She is an art teacher that sketches pictures, which look at the soul of the person that she is drawing. Even as the drawings become very important in helping law enforcement solve crimes, she does the drawings in an absent-minded manner. When intelligent police officers analyze the sketches, they are highly accurate in pointing to who committed a crime. The police while initially treating her as a suspect gradually become amused and even horrified with her talent for solving the most complex of

Initially, in Trifles by Susan Glaspell there was a sense of mystery regarding who killed Mr. Wright in his bed while sleeping next to his wife. The detective, and the county attorney along with their wives and a witness arrived at the Wright’s residence to gather evidence in the case. The wives were along for the trip expected to wait for their husbands to do the detective work as they chat with one another. The men discounted the women’s abilities and say, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles”, (Glaspell, pp 775) which means that women worry about small unimportant things and make big deals out of them. However, the women begin to discover subtle clues as to what occurred in the home leading up to his death. Mrs. Hale is Mrs. Wright’s neighbor she

The Things They Carried is a work of historical fiction written by Vietnam war veteran, Tim O’Brien. This novella is a collection of linked short stories about American soldiers serving in the Vietnam war. The novella contains a numerous amount of deep,complex characters who help characterize each other. In the The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien characterizes the soldiers through the round female characters

In figure 2, Polhaus and Dundy wear nearly identical outfits, they have the same grim expressions, and they have extremely similar lighting on their faces, clothes, and hands. In figure 3, they both appear menacing with the same dark lighting and this lighting reinforces the idea that Spade is more trustworthy than the cops. Figures 2 and 3 illustrate how the individuals in the police force have been blurred, so that they are nearly the same. It has already been established that the lack of contrast in shadows on the faces of the cops makes them less complex characters, and since all the cops are similar, it means nearly all are superficial in a way, and that Spade is more human than all of them because he is in charge of his own actions and morals. The cops in the film have been transformed from characters into plot devices and obstacles for Spade to get around. This “de-characterization” of the police forces people to relate to criminals and morally ambiguous private investigators like Spade. The world of the film is bleaker than the world of the novel because cops, who are meant to protect and serve others, have been slightly discredited. Thus, the institutions in the filmic world are seen as ineffective and unstable, and the audience can only relate to people like Spade who work outside the

Women usually assume they need to act like men to be respected. They feel like they don’t have the choice: either they act in a masculine way and they succeed or they stay as they are but success won’t be part of their lives. Jane Rizzoli strongly believes that she has to act like a man to be respected. She is blunt, tenacious, proud and unmaternal and her work is all she knows, it’s her universe. In the books, Jane Rizzoli is a thirty-three-year-old detective who newly works at the Boston Homicide Unit and used to work at Vice and Narcotics.

While the men in the story where playing Sherlock Holmes looking for evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, they missed the bad fruit and the bread left out of the bow, a quilt that was not finished and had a few bad stiches, an unclean table and a birdcage that was empty. They were so determined to find specific clues of the murder, that they missed the clues of the emotional abuse that Mrs. Wright was subjected to from her husband. They were also so busy criticizing everything that Mrs. Wright did or did not do, that they missed everything that was right in front of their eyes. They even slipped with some sexist remarks Mr. Hale says ‘Well, women are used to worrying over trifles’, not realizing that the women were in the room.

The third attribute of the “hard-boiled” detective is that they are often amoral. Sam Spade certainly fits this criteria. To begin, we find out that he is having an affair with his partner’s, Miles Archer, wife. That, however, is just the beginning. After Miles dies Spade wants nothing more to do with Mrs. Archer and continually pushes her away. He shows no loyalty to anyone other than himself. He is not upset at his partner’s death. Instead, he treats it like any other murder case. He acts with coldness towards other people and does what helps him instead of applying to the moral code that most people use.

This is a theme that is not uncommon in detective fiction, detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot become the moral judge on the situation and decide at times to go against the expectations of the law.10 However, in the case of Spade and V.I. their position as judge becomes compromised. There are two aspects that cause this. Firstly, unlike the classical narratives, the hard-boiled detective and, therefore the judge on the situation, is not one of superior, almost above ordinary humans, intellect, yet a person of action. In other words, they are 'ordinary' human beings.

The loneliest character in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men is Crooks because he is a black crippled, man living in a prejudiced atmosphere. As Lennie was trying to convince Crooks to allow him to enter his room, Crooks says, " I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain't wanted in my room" (Steinbeck 68). Crooks is trying to enforce the little rights that he has to give him a sense of comfort and power, even though he has none. After Lennie asks Crooks why he isn't allowed in the bunkhouse Crooks replies with, " Cause I'm black" (Steinbeck 68). The men on the ranch don't allow Crooks to do anything with them except for play horseshoe, they also only talk to him to belittle him. During Crooks outburst, he says, " I tell ya a guy gets too

It becomes clear that the female protagonist, Alice, appears to be provocative and impatient, despondent at the prospect that she has been kept waiting at the expense of the British legal system, although she is more than happy to share a joke with the nearest detective in order to incite some form of reaction from her lover, Frank, a fellow detective. Stating that she expects “the entire machinery of Scotland Yard to be held up to please” her only aggravates an already awkward situation, emphasising her unwillingness to conform to the rules and regulations, expecting the law to accommodate her every necessitity.

In crime fiction, many themes are encountered in crime stories, enabling the reader to reflect on the cultural and moral values of the society. These stories discuss various topics such as race, ethnicity, sexism, and femininity. In the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the independence of women is shown as a conflict in society that must be solved and controlled by men. This may be demonstrated by the poor representation of single women present in the Sherlock Holmes stories, such as Mary Morstan and Irene Adler who are considered as a problem in this society, because they do not have the presence of a male figure guiding them in their everyday lives. In the stories, the issues caused by these women are redundantly resolved by marrying a man. This implies an unacceptable prejudice towards the female gender.

Sherlock Holmes is a character created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock is a legendary detective who solves even the most baffling and meticulously puzzled cases with astute observation, abductive reasoning and with little to no people skills. As a "consulting detective," he favors reason and logic above all else and rarely makes personal attachments beyond those that benefit him. He calls himself a "high functioning sociopath" because he does not make any acquaintance or understand emotions very well, beyond what can be studied.

1A. A good detective is a very smart person who is able to use evidence and to detect lies and truth. And is also able to think things in a logic and quicker way as well as understanding criminal's movements. For example, detective Dupin in the "Murders of the Rue Morgue" from how the bones were broken and how a lot of hair was pulled out, he figured out that the criminal was not a human, but rather an criminal(Orangutan). "I proceeded to think thus—à posteriori. The murderers did escape from one of these windows. This being so, they could not have refastened the sashes from the inside, as they were found fastened; — the consideration which put a stop, through its obviousness, to the scrutiny of the police in this quarter. Yet the sashes were fastened. They must, then, have the power of fastening themselves. There was no escape from this conclusion." I have seen the character of detectives evolve from one author to the next by having a brilliant life in Doyle's novel "The Sign of the four" to love as in Rampo's "Beast in the Shadows. In "The Sign of the Four" it said, "I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?" In the "Beast in the Shadows" it said, "Thus, I fell for her completely, sending her meaningless on a frequent basis." Doyle's, Rampo's, Gaboriau's, Christie's, and Borges's fiction character and plot were similar as Poe's detective and plot. Therefore, they do depend on earlier models. In respect, Gaboriau aims to glorify or support the French police while it said, “Well done, Goulard!" quoth the commissary, approvingl;” Poe has a contemptuous attitude towards the agency. I believe that Gaboriau got the idea from Poe, but did the opposite from what I see, I could definitely tell that Poe deserves the title "One of American Greatest Storyteller" because so many authors followed his example of how to write a detective novel. Which shows that his writing impact others to write detective novels.