A Man of Honor.

The story of “Farewell, my lovely” talks about a private detective call “Philipp Marlowe”. This story takes place in Bay City, a little town near from Los Angeles. Marlowe is the most important detective in the District Attorney's office, which lately had been not too much work. A man call “Moose Malloy” contacted Marlowe to find his old girlfriend “Velma” who had been disappeared for almost 10 years. Marlowe accepted to help Malloy, but as the story goes through, several characters appeared in the story that at the end, you find that everyone where involved with each other. Lindsay Marriot is an essential character in this story. Marriot contacted Marlowe too, so he could accompanied him to a big canyon to exchange money …show more content…
Marriot was hiding in the back while Marlowe went to check who was waiting for the money. This situation didn’t go well. Consequently, somebody punched Marlowe head from behind, so he was knocked. When Marlowe woke up, Marriot was already dead in the car. Marlowe felt guilty about that because Marriot did pay him for the case and it cost his life. Later, Marlowe found out about another important character called “Mrs. Grayle”, a really rich woman, married to a powerful old man. She is the one who owned the famous necklace that Marriot was looking for. At the end of the story, you see how the famous “Velma” was hiding under the identity of “Mrs. Grayle” and she ends killing herself. As the events happened in this story, I found how Marlowe was such an important, honest and brave man that make him a man of honor as Chandler states in …show more content…
“He is relatively a poor man, or he would not be a detective at all”. I think in the whole story Marlowe seems to be a humble man because of the way he lives and works. He doesn’t have nothing important to lose in case he would die. For instance, in the scene when Nulty is talking Marlowe after the incident of the drugs in Bay City, Marlowe explained him “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun”. Relatively, you can definitely say and see that Marlowe was a poor and humble man, although sometimes his comments sound a little bit arrogant. Maybe Marlowe was arrogant sometimes with his responses and comments because he didn’t want to accept or show to their clients and the people that he didn’t have anything to