What does Marlowe mean by the phrase, “Crime isn’t a disease, it’s a symptom”? (p.How does Marlowe view homosexuals? What attitudes does he have about women generally, and particularly blondes? Do these attitudes affect the way he conducts his investigation, and if so, how? Do these particular passages in the novel affect the work’s literary value? 280) Do you think he is? Describe from relevant passages in the text what Marlowe’s attitudes are toward individuals from different minority groups, including blacks, the Japanese and Mexicans. Is Marlowe serious when, later on, he describes himself as a “romantic”? (p.235) Given Marlowe’s outlook on lawyers, cops, physicians and the upper class, does he show affinities with Potter’s view or is he someone very different from Potter? 233-235), he observes judgmentally of the old patriarch: “He hated everything.” (p. After Marlowe hears the wealthy mogul Harlan Potter denounce the media and American middle class consumerism (p.203-207) that Wade wrote while drunk, and which he instructs Marlowe to remove from the typewriter? Why does Marlowe save the scraps of this manuscript and then, later, put them down the kitchen garbage disposal at the Wades’ house? How are we to interpret the typed manuscript (p.Why does Marlowe not feel the same kind of instinctive sympathy for writer Roger Wade that he feels for Terry Lennox, both of whom are down on their luck and troubled by alcohol?.Does Endicott accurately perceive Marlowe’s character? After Marlowe gets beaten up and tortured in the police station, the lawyer Endicott accuses him of wanting “to play the big scene” (p.10) after barely meeting him, and taking him home? Why does he tell the homicide detectives, “I’ve got a reasonable amount of sentiment invested in him”? (p. What are Philip Marlowe’s reasons for rescuing the drunken Terry Lennox, calling him “My friend” (p.

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