I think this says more about your romantic sensibilities than
it says about Spade's. The very wording of the last speech is
so over the top, he's got to be kidding. Nowhere else in the
book does he talk like that. Birgid is a psycho who plays on
men's romantic notion of her beauty. Spade's words play into
her own self image. This is the kind of speech she expects
and requires... it just doesn't go where she expects it to
and that's the twist. If we believe Spade loves Brigid, then
he is a weaker personality than he proves to be by the
outcome of the story.
Patrick King
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John Lau wrote:
>
> it's not the last 12 pages that put it in
question
> for
> me. it's all the other pages before it. I
> remember
> when I got to the point where he says maybe
he
> loves
> her, I thought... you do? the reader doesn't
feel
> it,
> that's fo sho
>
> ***************
> I just couldn't imagine him talking about loving
her
> at the end unless he meant it. It's been
suggested
> that he was just bullshitting. Maybe so.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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