For the most part the book is totally objective--as if told
by the sound camera alone as someone suggested, but as
Stewart Wilson pointed out, it did fall into third-person for
a line or two here and there.
But isn't that something like saying, "She's a beautiful
woman, but she has a pimple on her elbow?"
It holds to the objective so much so that most of us don't
even notice the minor discrepencies.
Another question: Would it have been a better book told
third-person single POV or first person? Or have we all been
influenced by Chandler into thinking that the PI story is
best told from the single point of view?
I just read the book again last week, and I don't want to
take the time to look it up, but maybe someone else might
remember--isn't the only time Spade is "off camera" during
the scenes that show Gutman's daughter?
And what purpose does she serve? I kept asking myself that
when reading it.
Jack Bludis
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Anthony nominee, Best Short Story http://www.jackbludis.com
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