Al Guthrie said, "I don't drive a car. Does that make me an
anarchist?"
I don't know about England, but in the US that would make you
a communist--or poor.
-------- Miker said, "In most noirs, the protagonist is
doomed because of immoral actions, a lack of personal
integrity."
That is as close to my observation as I've seen, but I would
add that sometimes the noir character has been moral and has
had integrity right up until the point that he or she becomes
obsessed or has a need that draws him into the vortex where
of doom.
One character who falls into this category is Harry Morgan in
Hemingway's novel, "To Have and Have Not."
It "seems" that Hemingway was illustrating the diffeences
between those who have and those who have not. I haven't read
anyplace that he was advocating social reform, though.
Another book full of such characters where I think that is
true is in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They," although Horace
McCoy's story is told in flashback.
Jack Bludis
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