![]() ![]() Because Chandler is presenting Marlowe as a Story, and his denigrating comments make a modern reader squirm. Marlowe, the book’s narrator, is disgusted at the two gay characters in the Of all those who were influenced so deeply by the book. To read it today is to read it in the context Spawned waves and waves of imitators, bad and good. Parodied that sort of line to the point that what it raised in me wasn’t shock Though, it brings to mind generations of comedies and comedians who have Reader - a married upper-class woman throwing herself sexually at a gumshoe, It must have had an edge of shock for the ![]() Years ago, that must have had a different resonance. Turns Philip Marlowe in the front seat of their parked car and says: Through Raymond Chandler’s 1939 hard-boiled, highly praised novel The Big Sleep, the rich and wild Vivian Regan ![]()
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