Marianne Macdonald wrote:
The classical definition of a tragic her (yerrr,
"hero" of course) is a great man with a single tragic
character flaw which leads to his destruction. I don't really
see that as an unarguable description of the noir
protagonist, where that balance of strength and weakness may
be reversed.
*************** Tragedy and noir both involve a bad move made
from a precarious position.
The first noir protagonists were fairly despicable, but later
on some noir authors entertained the idea of a protagonist
who was basically a good guy but for one mistake. Build My
Gallows High and River Girl fall into this category.
miker
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