Doug
I have to agree with you that The Long Good-Bye is a tragedy.
When Lennox/Maioranos disappears down that corridor "first
[his footsteps] grew faint, then they got silent" Marlow is
saying goodbye not only to his friend but to a whole moral
code, an heroic model, and a whole era in American history.
In my opinion this novel is Chandler's lament at the arrival
of the new postmodern world that he, and Marlowe, will never
fit into. If it's not tragic, what is it?
Chris
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