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Farewell, My Lovely

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Farewell, My Lovely	comment	Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 detective novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private eye Philip Marlowe.A chance meeting with Moose Malloy, a recently-released convict who is trying to find out what happened to his old sweetheart Velma, gets Marlowe tangled up in another dangerous situation. While he tries to figure out what became of Velma, he also gets hired to deal with a jewelry theft.It was adapted to film in 1942 (as The Falcon Takes Over, a Dolled-Up Installment of the Falcon film series starring George Sanders), 1944 (as Murder, My Sweet, with Dick Powell as Marlowe) and 1975 (as Farewell, My Lovely, with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe).
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Though Marlowe does have his more human moments, these mainly occur when he's been truly pushed over the edge, as when he is kidnapped and shot full of narcotics by a quack doctor. The rest of the time, though, he manages to remain completely deadpan even as he's being beaten up by crooked cops or having guns waved in his face.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Marlowe narrates:
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: When Jessie Florian is found dead, it's pretty obvious that Moose Malloy did the deed, but Marlowe suspects it wasn't completely intentional. Specifically, Malloy tried to question her about Velma's whereabouts, then when she lied to him, he tried to choke and beat the truth out of her—only he used more force than he realized.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_3c670a1b	comment	Color-Coded Eyes: One of the things about Red Norgaard that attracts Marlowe's attention is his eyes. "He had the eyes you never see, that you only read about. Violet eyes. Almost purple."
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Moose Malloy is looking for his red-haired sweetheart Velma, who either died or skipped town while he was in prison after being framed. Come the finale, it's revealed that Mrs. Grayle (Marlowe's employer for his second, seemingly irrelevant case) is actually a disguised Velma, and was responsible for framing Moose, murdering Lin Marriott, and attacking Marlowe previously; in other words, the book's damsel in distress was actually the villain disguised as the moll.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: The accent of Amthor's secretary is rendered phonetically.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Played with. During Marlowe's second meeting with Anne Riordan, he's instantly suspicious when she mentions the missing jade necklace, because he's been careful not to tell her exactly what's missing. However, she turns out to have an innocent explanation for knowing about it.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Farewell, My Lovely / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Since all the Marlowe stories are narrated in the first person, Marlowe's mood and mental condition affect the tone of the writing. This is usually very subtle, but there's a passage in Farewell, My Lovely where Marlowe regains consciousness after an involuntary, days-long binge on needle drugs. The narration is downright surreal for a few chapters...to the point where he seems to be talking to the reader.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Marlowe has a moment of sympathy for a Mook he's just beaten up to escape:
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Farewell, My Lovely / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: For much of the middle of the novel, we hear about Laird Brunette, a gang boss who has the mayor and most of the city administration in his pocket. When Marlowe finally makes contact with Brunette, it turns out he has almost nothing to do with the case; he has bought the mayor, mainly because it's more efficient than paying off a bunch of different officials individually, but he just wants to keep his casino from being raided, and doesn't otherwise interfere in local affairs. He's actually sort of helpful to Marlowe.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_58edb895	comment	Tonto Talk: A Mook named Second Planting shows up and engages in this. Marlowe doesn't buy it for a minute, finally telling him to "Skip the pig Latin". The mook's English improves, indicating he was faking most of it, but it's still a little broken.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Farewell, My Lovely / int_5c219298	comment	Phony Psychic: Jules Amthor, Psychic Consultant (and con-man wanted on at least two different continents).
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Mrs. Morrison, who lives next door to Jessie Florian and sees nearly everyone who comes and goes from that house. In her eagerness to gossip, she shares several important details about Mrs. Florian with Marlowe—then she clams up as soon as she realizes Marlowe's a drinker, too.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: In the opening chapter, Marlowe finds himself standing outside a set of doors with something interesting happening on the other side. "It wasn't any of my business. So I pushed them open and looked in." Much later, having had a considerable amount of trouble as a result of that decision, Marlowe finds himself standing outside another door: "This was the time to leave, to go far away. So I pushed the door open and stepped quietly in."
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_6d56d241	type	Patchwork Story
Farewell, My Lovely / int_6d56d241	comment	Patchwork Story: Chandler took three of his short stories — "Try the Girl" (the hoodlum and his girlfriend), "Mandarin's Jade" (the jewelry theft), and "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (the sequence involving the offshore casino) — and wove them together to get the plot for the novel.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Farewell, My Lovely / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Marlowe both unconventionally describes people and isn't above Leaning on the Fourth Wall, as in this example from when Marlowe wakes up on the ground after being knocked unconscious:
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
Farewell, My Lovely / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Philip Marlowe ends up fulfilling this role himself, perhaps unintentionally, as he says several racist things in the book but is irritated with the police overlooking Moose's first murder of a black man. Notably, he tends to use more racist language when talking to people who are pretty darn racist themselves (like the first cop on the scene), so maybe he's trying to talk to some people on their own obnoxious terms.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: Nulty thinks it'll be easy to catch Malloy, since he's a massive brute of a man in a very conspicuous suit. The police instead nab two other, similarly huge guys with no connection to the case, and they never do find Malloy.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Bay City, California, where the mayor and the police are in the pocket of organized crime, is Santa Monica with the names changed to protect the guilty.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_88dee3b3	comment	Talks Like a Simile: A feature of Marlowe's narration. He gets off to a good start with his initial description of Moose Malloy:
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Marlowe.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Farewell, My Lovely / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: Discussed at the end. Anne Riordan jokes that Marlowe should have invited all the suspects to a dinner party and laid everything out "in a phony English accent like Philo Vance", and the butler fainting dramatically at a key moment. Marlowe says it wasn't that kind of case.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: Marlowe getting hired for the stolen necklace case turns out to be part of a plan by Velma to deal with him before he tracks her down. It doesn't work, and probably ends up as a net assist to Marlowe, because the necklace investigation gets him looking in places that he'd never have thought to look in connection with the Velma investigation.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: A lot of the analogies in Marlowe's narration describe things by comparing them to things they aren't, such as his description of Moose Malloy as "a big man but not wider than a beer truck", or the Grayle mansion as "smaller than Buckingham Palace".
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: Marlowe engages in this throughout the book, as befitting the Trope Codifier.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Marlowe.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Velma/Mrs. Grayle would have probably only had to tell Philip Marlowe she didn't want to be found by Moose and he would have happily taken care of him for her. Moose was, after all, a murderer by that point and Philip has a white knight complex. Her multiple murders to conceal herself were thus completely needless.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Happens quite often, sometimes accompanied by a lengthy and poetic description of darkness washing over him as he loses consciousness.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Quite a few of Marlowe's insults are subtle jabs, sometimes at real people; for example, when a mook feels the need to repeat everything back at him, he starts referring to him as Hemingway:
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Lin Marriott is carrying three of Jules Amthor's business cards on him when he dies. They're rolled up inside the mouthpieces of marijuana cigarettes, and Marlowe can't figure out any practical purpose for hiding business cards in this manner. He concludes that Marriott suspected he was in danger and hid those business cards as a bit of revenge: ensuring that if he died, Amthor would get dragged into the investigation and his psychic scam exposed.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Lieutenant Randall isn't very friendly when they first meet, and mostly just wants Marlowe out of his hair, but they come to respect each other's intelligence and develop a working relationship by the end of the novel.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: In the final chapter, when an on-the-run Velma gets identified in Baltimore, she fatally shoots the police officer who identified her, and then herself. Marlowe speculates that she realized escape was no longer an option, so she killed herself to spare her husband, Mr. Grayle, the indignity of a drawn-out murder trial.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Marlowe mostly smokes cigarettes, but he smokes a pipe while talking to Anne Riordan in his office. He narrates that he can tell it reassures her because it signifies he's a solid respectable person, and that she's going to be disappointed: he's not that respectable, and he went for the pipe mainly because lighting it up gave him something to fiddle with while he was thinking.
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Farewell, My Lovely / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Jessie Florian, the widow of the former owner of Florian's nightclub, now living in a rundown house and constantly intoxicated.
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