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Pathetic Fallacy – Rain/Darkness/Cold
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Throughout the book
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Often when a murder is about to be, or has been,
commited
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Money motivates everything and everyone
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Twisted morals
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Main character is the opposite of that idea
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Contrast between grand mansions and dirty oil
fields where the money was made
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Chronological order
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Chivalry of main character
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Seems to be the only gentleman in the whole book
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Sympathetic and sensitive towards women
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Superficiality
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Optimism during the Great Depression
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Money and looking good and living well is
something to hope/reach for
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Pursuit of honesty/truth – driving Marlowe’s
actions
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Innovative novel
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Twist ending
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General Sternwood
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Naïve
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Optimistic
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Caring in some ways
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Money-orientated
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Vivian Regan
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Not as “femme fatale” as she’d like to think
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Carmen Sternwood
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Wild
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Unstable
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Dangerous
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Forward
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Spoilt brat
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Symbols/Motifs
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Rain
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Knight
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Chess
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Orchid
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Oil field
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“Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t
a game for knights…”
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Turning point
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Starts carrying a gun
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Realises he’s going to have to bend the rules to
“complete the game”
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“You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep,
you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind
and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of
how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more
part of it than Rusty Regan was.”
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Freedom in death, better than being alive
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His surroundings didn’t matter anymore as he was
sleeping the big sleep
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Nastiness = the crime, the family, the world.
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