Al wrote:
"I'm not sure about that. Goodis's characters have frequently
lost something. Cassidy, in CASSIDY'S GIRL, or Eddie in DOWN
THERE, spring to mind."
As has the protagonist of Goodis's Street of No Return, who
was once a well known singer.
"In tragedy, though, the story starts much earlier. Maybe
noir starts where tragedy ends?"
That would certainly seem to work for the Goodis characters,
who are so often living in the shambles left by their
downfalls.
"As for hope, well it's a key ingredient in many of Jason
Starr's extremely noir novels. Hope can really screw you
up."
Yes, hope can. And there is often hope in Goodis, too.
Several of his characters manifest this hope by getting
involved with women they believe are better than they
deserve. They try for the better life they hope for, but end
up returning to the impure, and usually larger, woman they
believe they actually do deserve -- both Cassidy's Girl and
Blonde on the Corner come to mind.
Mark
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