Kerry,
Re your comment below:
> But Spade is a sap, as are all the characters in
The
> Maltese Falcon, conned
> by some unseen hand into lying, cheating,
killing
> and, perhaps most telling
> of all, the mistrust and denial of love. This
for
> the pursuit of a
> worthless chunk of lead.
By the time Spade displays his "mistrust and denial of love,"
the fact that the Falcon is a phony has already been
revealed. Spade's agenda throughout the novel is not the
possession of the Falcon (although he admits it would be a
nice bonus), but the solution of the murders. He even turns
in the bribe he that he cons Gutman out of so it can be used
as evidence, leading one to the inevitable conclusion (though
it's never stated) that the only reason he conned the bribe
out of Gutman is so it COULD be used as evidence.
And Brigid was in no way imaginable worthy of his, or
anyone's, love or trust.
JIM DOHERTY
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