As The High Window enters a period of rising action, Raymond Chandler uses this stage as a time to display Marlowe’s obscure feelings. Despite coming off as a tough, quick-witted detective, Marlowe begins to unveil strange reactions and moods. Although showing no significant sign of unusual behavior while talking to Mrs. Murdock, his behavior changes over only after learning that the coin was occupying two spaces simultaneously. However, the reader can only assume that Marlowe is feeling odd until Chandler’s word choice ultimately describes an unnatural Marlowe; “I pushed out of the booth and lit a cigarette with thick awkward fingers” (Chandler 103). With Marlowe forcefully exiting from the booth you can only suspect peculiar behavior, which even the awkwardness of smoking his cigarette could cover. However, his awkwardness didn’t stop there. …show more content…
Marlowe’s weird remark and encounter with the druggist, then led to the repetition of the word surprised.
The exact sentence of this point of emotion is after Marlowe’s remark, “He looked up surprised. The girls at the pinball machine looked at me, surprised. I went over and looked at myself in the mirror behind the counter. I looked surprised.” (Chandler 103). With everyone in the shop, including Marlowe in a state of surprise, you can only assume that maybe Chandler purposely added the word repetition. However, if this wasn’t enough evidence by Chandler he also adds a distinctive metaphor as Marlowe leaves; “I got down off the stool and walked to the door in a silence that was as loud as a ton of coal going down a chute.” (Chandler 103). This, in fact, heightens Marlowe’s strange behavior. As a result, it's safe to say Mrs. Murdock’s phone call disorients
Marlowe. However, all the surprise and disorientation is unusual. Marlowe is ordinarily in charge, but this news about a second coin has pushed him too far. You can compare this scenario with opposite interactions where Marlowe ultimately proves to be in charge for example, his conversation with Leslie Murdock. Though being tested throughout the conversation and being pulled a gun on and almost hit Marlowe stays calm and avoids the show of shock and weakness. However, although seeming as always a step ahead detective Marlowe begins to lose this title as more and more incidents affect his position in the case. With Marlowe under pressure several times, for example, his encounter with deaths and being tested by Mr. Murdock during the opening of the novel, he displays not sign of shock and surprise. However, if Marlowe’s own words about being surprised weren’t enough Chandler uses another set of awkward interaction by Marlowe at the drugstore ultimately proving he was not there mentally, “I’ve had a shock. I’m a little dazed. Give me a cup of coffee, weak, and a very thin ham sandwich on stale bread. No, I better not eat yet either. Good-by.” (Chandler 103). With Marlowe confusing the drugstore with a diner he only adds to the awkward disoriented persona, but Chandler hints at something as Marlowe escapes the awkward asylum, quick recovery. As Marlowe leaves, he spots a man sneering at him over a liberal magazine only leaving Marlowe to say, “You ought to lay off that fluff and get your teeth into something solid, like a pulp magazine.” (Chandler 104). Although not seeming as much it’s possible that Chandler used this time to show that Marlowe’s quick-witted character was back from the disorientation or to show his viewpoint about the New Republic or Liberals altogether. Nonetheless, Chandler references many things throughout the little passage in Chapter 13 leaving the reader to only speculate theories and reasons. However, one clear evident theory which can
Dr. Goodall is a well-known British primatologist who has discovered a substantial amount about primates in her many years of research. She has written numerous books, including one that we will be going into depth about called, “Through a Window.” Her book contains personal experiences, research findings, and even pictures to help the readers visualize her scientific breaking moments from her thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe. She states that there is are minor differences, and several similarities between humans and the chimpanzees. We will discuss these differences and similarities through their social behavior, intellectual ability, and emotions. To conclude, examine Goodall’s research to adopt what her findings can tell us about our early ancestors, and whether or not her study coincided to the steps of scientific methodology.
“Even the distant farmsteads she could see served only to intensify a sense of isolation” (Door, 48).
Jamal’s friends dare him to break into The Window’s house by his friends, and in doing so leaves his backpack containing his writings. When he receives his bag back, he notices that The Window has graded his writings. This intrigues Jamal, encouraging him to ask The Window to grade more papers in which he responds with his rude comment. However, their friendship develops quickly when Mailor-Callow,
The Change of Perspective in the Author of Sky High The text Sky-High shows the change of perspective in the author, Hannah Robert, as she goes from an imaginative and curious child to an adult with less freedom and more responsibility. It explores the nature of change, which occurs in the transition from child to adult While the author is reminiscing about her childhood, we see her perspective of herself and her backyard and her world. Her backyard becomes a place where she can have many adventures with many different characters. As she describes her backyard, the mood changes as her “… thoughts return to my original plan, the ultimate conquest of the washing line.”. With the use of the word conquest a feeling that she is on a mission to climb the washing line is empathized.
Firstly, minor characters break stereotypes to breathe life into the sleepy town of Maycomb, establishing setting. For example, Mr. Dolphus Raymond assumes the character of a drinker as a pretense for associating with coloured people, though in reality he is drinking coca cola and not alcohol, hidden the contents in a paper bag. He confesses this to Scout, saying “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (Lee 200-201). This proves that what is most outwardly transparent and unlikeable in a character may truly be interesting and good-natured. Mr. Raymond’s secret causes the reader to look past the paper bag and ask why a man might go to such extent to hide his best qualities. It proves that, in Mr. Raymond’s eyes, Maycomb isn’t yet able to handle the truth. He must hide it behin...
My conclusion, then, is that the lawyer strays from the zone of comfort to only lead him back to it. For instance, he does not try to understand Bartleby through Bartleby’s perspective, but he wants to understand who Bartleby is so that Bartleby will conform to the way he is. The lawyer’s empathy that he shows towards Bartleby is not a genuine display for Bartleby, but as a selfish way to restore the order in which he does not have to deal with this conflict.
The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that engages the reader in an intricate love story that blends history and a fanciful ancestry. Hawthorne stays true to the Romantic era’s convections through his detailed development of the plot. Through his writing, the reader can capture the emotions, morality and motives of each character. Although Hawthorne writes in the romantic style, he does not fail to go against the social norms with the plot. He defines the normal roles of women and he emphasizes the role of wealth in society. Furthermore he asserts his opinions on issues that were prevent in that time, such as, racism, slave emancipation and Jim Crow. The story was not created to just provide a creative love
On first inspection of Raymond Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, the reader discovers that the story unravels quickly through the narrative voice of Philip Marlowe, the detective hired by the Sternwood family of Los Angeles to solve a mystery for them. The mystery concerns the General Sternwood's young daughter, and a one Mr. A. G. Geiger. Upon digging for the answer to this puzzle placed before Marlowe for a mere fee of $25 dollars a day plus expenses, Marlowe soon finds layers upon layers of mystifying events tangled in the already mysterious web of lies and deception concerning the Sternwood family, especially the two young daughters.
Carver progresses the narrator’s tone throughout the story, from disdainful to cautious to introspective by developing his relationship with Robert, and forcing them to interact with each other, to express that false presumptions about strangers, based on someone else’s experience or stories, can be misleading.
It is known that the relationship between a father and daughter can make a great impact on the daughter's life for the rest of her life. Throughout The Glass Castle the reader sees this relation between Jeannette and her dad, Rex, starts off as a roller coaster, it’s dangerous yet so full of fun. Then at the end, the roller coaster stops as life starts kicks in and reality of the world pushes that force to a stop. You do see the love between Jeannette and her dad, Rex, from, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, their relationship is considered to be rather unhealthy than healthy, which is because Rex relies too much on Jeannette to be the one to keep the relationship strong.
Carver develops the narrator’s tone chronologically from disdainful to cautious to introspective by deepening his relationship with Robert to express the false perception of strangers that assumptions can produce.
Grey recognizes Godfrey as a fellow Harvard grad. Some earlier signs such as his impressive diction, ease in dressing appropriately, and ability to quickly adapt to the high class lifestyle also show that he has previous experience in a moneyed household. However, these are quickly looked past as Godfrey charms the audience with his witty, and respectable character. At this tea party, the revelation of Godfrey’s true character is largely overshadowed by the performance of another character: Ms. Irene Bullock. Her hilarious performance of a suffering girl who is forever damaged by Godfrey’s rejection is used as a tool both to steer the audience away from drawing conclusions about Godfrey’s true character and to demonstrate how negligent one’s worries are at that level of
One repeating characteristic of comedy throughout the movie is that logical and standard solutions do not always work in comical plots. For example, Dr. Monosoff suggests that they use an accountant, Eugene Proctor, to help find Mr. Highsmith’s daughter. The reason they pick Eugene is because Dr. Monosoff believes that Eugene and Valerie Highsmith have one thing in common: coincident misfortune syndrome. This means that Eugene and Valerie are so misfortunate that they will coincidentally meet. This idea was told to the detective, Raymond Campanella, and he thought that this was the most absurd thing he’s ever hea...
Ernest Hemingway is one of the most significant American authors of the Twentieth century. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for mastering the art of narrative and also for the impact that he has made on contemporary style. His involvement in the First World War as an ambulance driver greatly impacted his way of thinking. Severely wounded, he returned to the States and his involvement in the war lead him to write many novels concerning its treacheries. To his suicidal death in 1961, Hemingway composed a plethora of works that centered around was a major theme.
The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be expected), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze…. (Miller 68)