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Women In The Long Goodbye

That Women’s Crazy

Phillip Marlowe is a detective that is really perceptive. He notices things about people that would elude anybody else. As Marlowe meets women through out Raymond Chandler’s novels The Long Goodbye and The Big Sleep, he notices characteristics about the women almost immediately. Marlowe doesn’t get involved with most of the women that he meets because he notices negative characteristics that take away from their incredible beauty.
Carmen is general Sternwood’s younger daughter. When Marlowe first meets her, she immediately begins to flirt with him. “She tilted herself towards me on her toes. She fell straight back into my arms… I had to hold her close to hold her ...

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bed he refuses her because he knows that she is nothing but trouble. “I’m the guy that keeps finding you without any clothes on” (Big Sleep 155). At this point in the novel he has realized that she causes nothing but trouble so he will not get involved with her. By the end of the novel Marlowe has realized that Carmen killed Reagan and was mentally unsound. He doesn’t arrest Carmen because of this fact, but tells Vivian to take her to a mental hospital. “Will you take her away? Somewhere far off from here where they can handle her type, where they will keep guns and knives and fancy drinks away from her? Hell, she might even get herself cured, you know. It’s been done” (Big Sleep 228). He knows that she is crazy and needs help, so lets her off.
Vivian is General Sternwood’s older daughter. She flirts with Marlowe but much less aggressively then her sister. When he first comes to his office, she flirts with him, but much less obviously than her sister. “’She has a beautiful little ...

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