Mark,
Re your comment below:
> I probably started this by objecting to
Jim's
> writing that Gutman isn't hard
> boiled. I should have remembered he didn't have
to
> be because he appeared in
> a classic of hard boiled fiction. In excuse,
I
> objected Jim's calling him
> 'prissy' when he isn't though Joel Cairo
certainly
> is.
The funny thing is, I brought up Gutman to show that it was
appropriate, given the parameters of the list, to include
non-hard-boiled characters on the list if they were good
characters and came from hard-boiled novels, in order to show
that Angie Gennaro's hard-boiledness wasn't the issue so much
as her quality and worth as a literary character.
I chose Gutman as my example because (and here's the funny
part) I thought he was so obviously and manifestly NOT
hard-boiled that using him as an example of a non-hard-boiled
character in a hard-boiled novel would be entirely
non-controversial.
JIM DOHERTY
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