The Big Sleep
A rich, dying general hires Philip Marlowe to settle a blackmailer who is working on his younger daughter. The errand opens out into pornography, gambling debts, a missing husband and several bodies, half of which have nothing to do with each other. A knight in a trench coat descending through Los Angeles rot; the hardboiled grail quest.
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Lineage
- parallels ↑ Le Morte d'Arthur
- ↓ The Big Sleep
- ↓ The Big Lebowski
Attributes
Genre
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Plot structure
Emotional arc (story shape)
Quest object (Greimas)
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 70% · 15 shared
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