ENGL 2673- Reading

The thing that I like about the reading that we've had so far is that the characters are complex. Philip Marlowe is not your average PI he has layers, he has a code that he follows his own personal rules. Marlowe is modern yet he is also traditional. He lives and works in a modern work but he knows how to balance the modernity with his traditional beliefs and style. The other characters threw out the novel seem to be flawed either morally or emotionally.The character that sticks out in my mind to have the most flaws of both morally and emotional is Anges. Anges’ moral flaws are in the way she has had a kind of involvement with two different individual who get murdered and Anges does not care. Anges emotional flaw is in the fact that she doesn't care, that she has distanced herself to not care. However, Anges is not the only character in this novel that has distanced themselves.
Distancing ones self isn't always a bad thing in the case of General Sternwood distancing himself is probably what has kept him alive for so long. I think this fact is even true for Marlowe. As a PI it is necessary for one to limit the involvement with a client. What I mean is to become intimately involved with a client will take away from ones ability to see the whole picture. A great example of this is in The Big Sleep if Marlowe would have gotten involved with Carmen he probably would not have found out that she murder Rusty.