Chapter 1:
-Summary:We are introduced to the characters Sam, his partner Archer, his Assistant Effie, qnd a new client Miss Wonderly who is trying to rid of a man named Archer. We see how Spade reacts around women as well as around other men.
Archer takes the Thursby case.
-Characters: Sam Spade (main character, private investigator), Miles Archer (Spade's partner), Effie Ferrine (Sams secretary), Miss Wonderly (wealthy client), Floyd Thursby (Spades target, captor of Wonderly's sister)
-Quote(s): "They're right enough....and they had brothers in her bag"-shows motivation towards money...
-What I Noticed: Spade seems to be a ladies man, and so does Archer. The way they speak is smooth, and Archer scales Wonderly's body with his eyes. They also talk about her after she leaves.
Chapter 2:
-Summary: Sam gets a call saying that his partner was shot dead.Maybe it was Thursby since Spade sent Archer to follow him. Sam call's Archer's wife, coining her "precious" and says "don't get too excited" after saying that he was killed. He goes home and drinks.Tom and Leutennant Dundy arrive and question him. They found Thursby dead and think Sam did it as an act of revenge.
-New Characters: Lieutenant Dundy (head of police), Tom Polhaus (another detective)
-Quote: "Twenty minutes to four. I walked around thinking things through" - shows unreliable narrator. we stay on edge due to lack of full story. We get one-sided phone calls as well as missing timelines. Makes the reader the detectives.
-What I Noticed: can we trust Spade, or anyone, if we don't know what he's thinking? (unreliable narration) Is he vengeful? What motivates him the most? Is he a "bad" or "good" cop?
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