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• Finishing the book - I came away unsatisfied on several front and some quick research help solidify my problems despite the novel being on many top-100 lists. First - Chandler combined two short stories and combined characters in writing the Big Sleep. This is evident at the 2/3 mark when the case makes a major turning point.

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiledcrime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. Download adobe premiere cc 2015. The story is set in Los Angeles, California.

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The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the final pages of the book about 'sleeping the big sleep'.

In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's '100 Books of the Century'. In 2005, it was included in 'TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels'.^[1]

• Plot1
• Background2
• Adaptations3
• Footnotes4
• Further reading5
• External links6

Plot

Private investigatorPhilip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October. He wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail attempt by a bookseller named Arthur Geiger, on his wild young daughter Carmen. She had previously been blackmailed by a man named Joe Brody. Sternwood mentions his other, older daughter Vivian, who is in a loveless marriage with a man named Rusty Regan, who has disappeared. On Marlowe's way out, Vivian wonders if he was hired to find Regan but Marlowe will not say.

Marlowe investigates Geiger's bookstore and meets Agnes, the clerk. He determines the store is a pornography lending library. He follows Geiger home, stakes out his house, and sees Carmen Sternwood enter. Later, he hears a scream followed by gunshots and two cars speeding away. He rushes in to find Geiger dead and Carmen drugged and naked, in front of an empty camera. He takes her home but when he returns, Geiger's body is gone. He quickly leaves. The next day, the police call him and let him know the Sternwoods' car was found driven off a pier, with their chauffeur dead inside. It appears that he was hit on the head before the car entered the water. The police also ask if Marlowe is looking for Regan.

Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Joe Brody's home. Vivian comes to his office and says Carmen is being blackmailed with the nude photos from last night. She also mentions gambling at the casino of Eddie Mars and volunteers that Eddie's wife, Mona, ran off with Rusty. Marlowe revisits Geiger's house and finds Carmen trying to get in. They look for the photos but she plays dumb about the night before. Eddie Mars suddenly enters; he says he is Geiger's landlord and is looking for him. Mars demands to know why Marlowe is there; Marlowe takes no notice and states he is no threat to Mars.

Marlowe goes to Brody's home and finds him with Agnes, the bookstore's clerk. He tells them he knows they are taking over the lending library and blackmailing Carmen with the nude photos. Carmen forces her way in with a gun and demands the photos but Marlowe takes her gun and makes her leave. Marlowe interrogates Brody further and pieces together the story: Geiger was blackmailing Carmen; the family driver, Owen Taylor, didn't like it, so he sneaked in and killed him, then took the film of Carmen. Brody was staking out the house too and pursued the driver, knocked him out, stole the film, and possibly pushed the car off the pier. Suddenly the doorbell rings and Brody is shot dead; Marlowe gives chase and catches Geiger's male lover, who shot Brody thinking he killed Geiger. He had also hidden Geiger's body, so he could remove his own belongings before the police got wind of the murder.

The case is over but Marlowe is nagged by Regan's disappearance. The police accept that he simply ran off with Mona Mars, since she is also missing and Eddie Mars wouldn't risk committing a murder, where he'd be the obvious suspect. Mars calls Marlowe to his casino and seems to be nonchalant about everything. Vivian is also there and Marlowe senses something between her and Mars. He drives her home and she tries to seduce him but he rejects her advances. When he gets home, he finds Carmen has sneaked into his bed and he rejects her, too.

A man named Harry Jones, who is Agnes's new partner, approaches Marlowe and offers to sell him the location of Mona Mars. Marlowe plans to meet him later but Mars's henchman Canino is suspicious of Jones and Agnes's intentions and kills Jones first. Marlowe manages to meet Agnes anyway and receives the information. He goes to the location in Realito, a repair shop with home in back but Canino, with the help of Art Huck the garage man, jumps him and knocks him out. When he awakens, he is tied up and Mona Mars is there with him. She says she hasn't seen Rusty in months; she only hid out to help Eddie and insists he didn't kill Rusty. She frees him and he shoots and kills Canino.

The next day, Marlowe visits General Sternwood, who remains curious about Rusty's whereabouts. On the way out, Marlowe returns Carmen's gun to her and she asks him to teach her how to shoot. They go to an abandoned field, where she tries to kill him but he has loaded the gun with blanks. Marlowe brings her back and tells Vivian he has guessed the truth: Carmen came on to Rusty and he refused her, so she killed him. Eddie Mars, who had been backing Geiger, helped Vivian conceal it by inventing a story about his wife running off with Rusty and then began blackmailing her himself. Vivian says she did it to protect her father and promises to have Carmen institutionalized.

With the case now over, Marlowe goes to a local bar and orders several double Scotches. While drinking he begins to think about Mona 'Silver-Wig' Mars. He never sees her again.

Background

The Big Sleep, like most of Chandler's novels, was written by what he called 'cannibalizing' his short stories.^[2] Chandler would take stories he had already published in the pulp magazine Black Mask and rework them into a coherent story. For the The Big Sleep, the two main stories that formed the core of the novel were 'Killer in the Rain' (published in 1935) and 'The Curtain' (published in 1936). Although the stories were independent and shared no characters, they had some similarities that made it logical to combine them. In both stories there is a powerful father, who is distressed by his wayward daughter. Chandler merged the two fathers into a new character and did the same for the two daughters, resulting in General Sternwood and his wild daughter Carmen. Chandler also borrowed small parts of two other stories: 'Finger Man' and 'Mandarin's Jade'.^[3]

As might be expected, all this cannibalizing—especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by literally cutting and pasting paper—sometimes resulted in a plot that had a few loose ends; in the case of The Big Sleep, there is the famous question of who killed the chauffeur. When Howard Hawks made his film of the novel, the writing team were perplexed as to the answer. Hawks contacted Chandler to inquire and Chandler replied he had no idea.^[4] This exemplifies a difference between Chandler's style of crime fiction and previous authors. For Chandler the plot was almost secondary; what really mattered was the atmosphere and the characters. An ending that answered all the questions and neatly wrapped up every plot thread was less important to Chandler than having interesting characters who behave in believable ways.

When Chandler merged his stories into a novel, he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thinking, than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent. In 'The Curtain', the description of Mrs. O'Mara's room is just enough to establish the setting: 'This room had a white carpet from wall to wall. Ivory drapes of immense height lay tumbled casually on the white carpet inside the many windows. The windows stared towards the dark foot-hills, and the air beyond the glass was dark too. It hadn't started to rain yet, there was a feeling of pressure in the atmosphere.' In The Big Sleep, Chandler expanded this description of the room and used new detail (e.g., the contrast of white and 'bled out', the coming rain) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan (who was Mrs. O'Mara in the original story) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: 'The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead. There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place. The ivory furniture had chromium on it, and the enormous ivory drapes lay tumbled on the white carpet a yard from the windows. The white made the ivory look dirty and the ivory made the white look bled out. The windows stared towards the darkening foothills. It was going to rain soon. There was pressure in the air already.' ^[5]

Adaptations

• The Big Sleep, a 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Big Sleep, a 1978 film starring Robert Mitchum
• It was adapted for radio by Bill Morrison, directed by John Tydeman, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 September 1977, starring Ed Bishop as Marlowe.
• It was again adapted by BBC Radio 4 and broadcast on 5 February 2011, directed by Claire Grove and starring Toby Stephens as Marlowe.
• Perchance to Dream, Robert B. Parker's authorized 1990 sequel
• The Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski is inspired by the character Philip Marlowe and the style and plot elements of Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep.^[6][7]
• The Big Sleep, a stage adaptation by Alvin Rakoff and John D. Rakoff, premièred in October 2011 at The Mill at Sonning, Berkshire, UK.

Footnotes

1. ^'All Time 100 Novels'. Time. 2005-10-16. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
2. ^MacShane, Frank (1976). The life of Raymond Chandler (1st ed.). New York: E.P. Dutton. p. 67.
3. ^MacShane, Frank (1976). The life of Raymond Chandler (1st ed.). New York: E.P. Dutton. p. 68.
4. ^Letter to Jamie Hamilton, 21 March 1949. In Hiney, T. and MacShane, F. The Raymond Chandler Papers, page 105, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
5. ^MacShane, Frank (1976). The life of Raymond Chandler (1st ed.). New York: E.P. Dutton. pp. 68–69.
6. ^IndieWire, 'An Interview with The Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan about The Big Lebowski,' 1998
7. ^IndieWire, 'The Coens Speak (Reluctantly)', March 9, 1998 (retrieved January 7, 2010)

Further reading

External links

• Marling, William. 'Major Works: The Big Sleep, by Rayond Chandler'.
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler: A book review

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