ENG236H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cadillac De Ville Series, Pickup Truck, Generation Gap
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What"s significant is that its not the first discovery of the corpse. First time marlowe discovers the corpse, he comes to visit and sees furniture and man lying on carpet dead, and then sees naked carmen. Second time he sees eddie mars and there"s the corpse. Very carefully arranged not in the original place but in one of the rooms. Fake eye hasn"t closed: need to think of all the eyes in the novel. Notes: characterization, points out mistakes he makes in asking questions, he has a sense of why he makes mistakes; not that he didn"t get the info, but that he"s worried he did the wrong thing. Girl on boat who tried to fly too near the sun (like icarus: politics, world where women"s liberation is emerging. Archer"s response when he confronts brian about blackmailing elizabeth and kilpatrick tries to bring him into old boys club: urban sprawl. Building up the mountain without sense of repercussions.
