Patrick: Well, your last sentence is something Spade himself
says; as for the rest of it: maybe yes, maybe no [but
interesting in any case]. One can form whatever opinion one
likes based on the bare facts of the text, but in the end,
the ambiguity refuses to go away. And such a thing makes it
doubtful that any informed opinion, no matter how much one
might disagree with it, could "miss the whole point," as you
put it to KS. Rob
----- Original Message ---- From: Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007
5:11:22 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Cain and Hammett
--- "Kerry J. Schooley" <gsp.schoo@murderout
there.com>
wrote:
> Definitely a hard boiled egg, and heroically
so.
> So much so that we want to forget that list
of
> reasons he has for
> throwing Brigid over. The list is a repudiation
of
> all the human
> qualities required for romantic and Christian
love
> to flourish, but
> Spade relies on logic and represses his
romantic
> inclinations. He has
> no faith that love and passion can transcend
the
> problems of the
> world as he experiences them.
************ ********* ********* *********
I think you're missing the whole point here. Spade was
always playing Brigid. He was never in love with her.
He knew by the time he put her and Joel together, that
it was she who killed Miles AND Thrusby. That whole
speech at the end is said sarcastically as Bogart does
it. "I hope they don't hang you by that pretty neck"
"I'll be waiting for you." He's kidding her and it
dawns on her, as Mary Astor shows, that it's she who's
been played this time. Bridgid is a sociopath, just as
crazy as the rest of them; maybe a little worse. And
Sam Spade is under no illusion. He knew she was lying
when she first came into his office but she overpaid
him enough so it didn't matter.
Patrick King
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