Dashiell Hammett

Character Analysis in The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a thrilling movie full of twists and turns and deceits. Each character wants…

2 years ago

Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest”: Lying, Cheating, and Stealing Their Way to the Top

Dashiell Hammett paints a particularly devastating notion of community in his novel, Red Harvest. In his appropriately cynical description of…

3 years ago

The Fates of the Hollywood Ten: Jailed and Blacklisted for Not Naming Names

Hollywood. 1947. A committee called the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed to investigate the lives of those…

4 years ago

Relationships in Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man Reveal the Electra Complex

Sigmund Freud's well-known theory of the Oedipus complex "explain[s] the maturation of the infant boy through identification with the father…

4 years ago

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