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are contests annually for people to try and imitate him. This paper discusses the book The Long Goodbye and its film adaptation by Robert Altman. Characterization "Hard
boiled" isnt a term bestowed on this character lightly-he really is a very hard, cynical man. Hes the quintessential loner, with no family that we know of, certainly no
wife, and few friends. He enjoys women and is attractive to them but has no desire to settle down. And he moves through the dangerously bright world of
Los Angeles with ease and confidence, even though he comes in for his share of beatings. Chandler used dialogue to create this complex character, and we come to appreciate Marlowes
wit and wise cracks, and his pointed observations on life. In the first scene of the novel, Marlowe is in a parking lot outside a nightclub; heres his description
of a new arrival: "A low swung foreign speedster with no top drifted into the parking lot and a man got out of it and used the dash lighter
on a long cigarette. He was wearing a pullover check shirt, yellow slacks and riding boots. He strolled off trailing clouds of incense, not even bothering to look
toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says here: hes obviously
a meticulous observer; and he forms instant opinions of others. We know that the stranger drives a convertible; that he may be a European (the car and the long
cigarette); that the car is extremely expensive (the Rolls doesnt impress him); that he is sexually ambiguous ("clouds of incense"); and that he has abominable taste in clothes-which reinforces the
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