The Big Sleep

Marlowe’s Mystery In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep the main character, Phillip Marlowe, is a private investigator hired by the Sternwoods to solve a blackmail conspiracy. He is successful in his crime solving, but in his success, Marlowe raises many mysteries or questions. The crimes that he solves raise a moral and ethical debate on how far he should go to protect the Sternwoods or whether he should obey every law exactly. …

…not take a job from a crooked client. Marlowe might break some rules, none of which are very terrible, and make some mistakes along the way, but he gets his job done. The reason this writer supports Marlowe is that he might break the law, but it is to help decent people protect themselves from bad people. In the end, Marlowe solved every crime he set out to and left moral issues up for debate.