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Chandler's waste land.(influence of T.S. Eliot in the works of Raymond Chandler)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20030922
Author:Eburne, Jonathan P.

You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

--T. S. Eliot (1919)

In The Long Goodbye (1953), Philip Marlowe finds himself investigating the murder of a woman whose own father, the reclusive, Hearst-like newspaper mogul Harlan Potter, wishes to thwart the investigation. Marlowe arrives for his interview with Potter in a Cadillac driven by Amos, the "the middle-aged, colored chauffeur" employed by the millionaire's other daughter (Chandler 606). Later, when Marlowe leaves the Potter estate after a strained and frustrating ...

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