Characters_In_The_Maltese_Falcon

Characters In The Maltese Falcon Arrangement of story the story is told from the point of view of Spade and makes us empathize with him and at the same time leaves us in the dark as to what Spade has planned. We never know whether or not he is lying, corrupt, in love, a jerk, or just a nice guy. The reader also has to piece things together throughout the story by the dialogue and Spades facial expressions. The Hard-Boiled Hero In Hard boiled fiction, the hero (protagonist) begins a quest of discovery in order to reach a goal or regain something lost. (In Spades case, the falcon). In the novel, Spade faces dangers, challenges, and temptations that consist of physical, moral, material and sexual. He wonders if he should be with Brigid and be loyal to her or if he should turn her in; As we know he goes with the latter. He also is in this search for the falcon clearly for the money that he is promised by Gutman in returning it safetly to him. It is also important to point out that Spade sees things from the perspective of an average citizen, rather than from spade, falcon, out, brigid, novel, maltese, fiction, detective, hard, gutman, boiled, people, one, however, point, partner, end, being, because, women, protagonist, order, never, killed, hammett, fact, story, should, seems, search, said, right, plot, off, motivations