The Big Sleep

In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both authors, Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice, loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout

The Big Sleep is a detective novel set in 1930’s Los Angeles written by Raymond Chandler. Phillip Marlowe is a private detective hired to take care of a blackmailing scheme. General Sternwood is a wealthy old man with two troublesome socialite daughters. The General wants Marlowe to handle a man named Arthur Gwynn Geiger who has some type of dirt on the youngest daughter, Carmen. Upon meeting Marlowe, General Sternwood drops hints that he has an ulterior motive for Marlowe to find his missing son-in-law

as he gets mixed up in situations that include a jungle of pornographers, gamblers and murderers who have involved themselves with the Sternwood family. By looking at the space Marlowe engages with and his interaction with other characters in The Big Sleep, we can see that his voice is a tool of his characterization to assert his hard-boiled masculinity in a setting filled with

The idea of heroism is a common motif in Noir literature; one that dominates the characterization of the traditional hard-boiled detective. This remains constant in Raymond Chandler’s novel, The Big Sleep, in which Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the blackmail of a rich man with two troublesome, fun-loving daughters. As Marlowe gains more information throughout the course of his investigation, he becomes closer with the daughters, Vivian and Carmen Sternwood, and learns many dirty secrets

Similes in The Big Sleep      In response to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, I have just one question. Why all the similes? There isn't a single page in the novel that doesn't display this annoying literary device. Everything is "like this" or "like that." It never ends! Similar to decoding a secret message that isn't difficult to understand, but nevertheless tiring due to the overwhelming amount of messages, the novel is frustrating to read. The following analysis acknowledges Chandler's

Are you a huge fan of detective films? Are you interested in solving mysteries and cases? If yes, “The big sleep” film by Howard Hawks may be suitable for you. “The big sleep” movie is an American thriller-mystery film which is adopted from a well-known complicated novel with the same name in 1939 by Raymond Chandler. Both of the film and novel have a remarkable success during their time and considered as one of the best classic Hollywood film that is still recognized until now. The film itself

The Big Sleep follows the tough wisecracking, and morally upright private eye, Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) after he is hired by the old, ailing and tremendously wealthy, General Sternwood. While originally Marlowe was hired to help the General deal with a man named Arthur Gwynn Geiger, who is blackmailing the General over the General’s youngest daughter, Marlowe soon finds that the problem lies much deeper than previously thought and finds himself intertwined in the scandalous and hazardous

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) uses mostly restricted narration, perceptual subjectivity, and the lack of mental subjectivity to show the strength of Marlow’s (Humphrey Bogart) loyalty towards Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and General Sternwood (Charles Waldren). The Big Sleep uses a mostly restricted narration through the eyes of Marlow, with a few exceptions to make the audience feel more connected to Marlow. Early in the movie Marlow goes to Geiger’s (uncredited) house and sits outside only able

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

Nathan Kossoff Mr. Dailey Language Arts Summer Reading Assignments The Conflict A conflict in literature has four parts: man versus man, man versus nature, man versus himself, or man versus society, in the novel The Big Sleep it is man versus man. In the story General Sternwood is being blackmailed with provocative photos of his youngest daughter, the general believes it is Arthur Gwynn Geiger. This is the conflict because throughout the novel the private detective Marlowe is trying to solve