Farewell, My Lovely | Characters
In the few short months between the time that Chandler published The Big Sleep (1939) and finished writing Farewell, My Lovely, his character Marlowe had matured aesthetically. In The Big Sleep, Marlowe, while drawn with greater depth than the other characters in the novel, was nonetheless somewhat shadowy. In Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler fleshed out more of Marlowe's character, and in this novel he is easier to accept as narrator. Chandler enlarged the scope of Marlowe's patent irreverence, as for example in Marlowe's remark about a picture of Rembrandt on a...
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