In a message dated 4/26/02 9:16:20 PM,
anthony.dauer@verizon.net writes:
<< Here's another definitive hardboiled character trait
... self confidence. >>
There is a long list of hard-boiled
characters who were plagued by self-doubt, including Matt
Scudder, Ray Dolan (Jack Kelly's Line of Sight), Dave
Robichaeux, Eddie Coyle, Ed Exley, Easy Rawlins, and even our
old friend Philip Marlowe (especially in The Long Good-Bye.)
All of these guys worried a lot about whether they were doing
the right thing, for themselves, for others, for self
preservation, and all of them had people whose opinion of
them mattered.
They were sometimes self-confident
and sometimes halting and unsure, just like lots of other
non-hardboiled three dimensional characters. Nice try
Anthony, but I think Jim D's unadorned definition still
stands.
Jim
Blue
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