AML-3311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tangled
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Description of taggart wilde (district attorney) and his house. Long chapter including ohls and wilde, conversing with them. It was one of those solid old-fashioned houses which it used to be the thing to move bodily to new locations as the city grew westward . You can argue that marlowe is not sentimental. He"s not in the right time, he should be in the 1500s. The idea of nostalgia, it becomes a bigger issue. He usually just takes guesses, and watches for people"s reactions. Kind of a pink panther sort of way, he doesn"t show his thought process but it all clicks at the end. Calling attention to the fact that he is a character of fiction. Marlowe possibly jumps to the conclusion of regan"s killer because he had trouble putting the two separate stories together. Makes it easier just to push them together. Marlowe probably took it on because he thought that it was what general.