Use of Metaphor in The Big Sleep :: sleep

Use of Metaphor in The walloping log Zs   Raymond Chandler wrote The with child(p) Sleep as a piece of grave boiled spy fiction. This hyphen was a reaction to the high style of detective stories much(prenominal) as those involving Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple. Writers often set hard boiled detective novels in a gritty world where everyone has a past. In The Big Sleep, Chandler keeps this edgy, lower class tone right passel to the objects he utilizes for comparisons in his metaphors.   Chandler is highly precise in his word choice and diction. Through his lyric poem his is satisfactory to craft a world that I as the commentator am able to visualize. When I see this world, I see a black and white world filled with real characters who live brio on the mean side of the streets. When I first aver The Big Sleep as a reader who pays little attention to style, I was practically unaware of Chandlers precision in creating this mental image for his reader. hitherto upon a second read, I began to notice that the reason I was able to have such a vivid mental image of this hard edged world is that Chandlers detail and imagery maintains this picture right down to his metaphors.   Part of the attempt of hard boiled detective novels is to be more realistic partly in response to the sense of hearing the fiction was beingness written for which was a more working class audience that read magazines in which these writers often published this fiction. So, Chandler to be true to both his audience and the genre utilizes commonplace objects in his metaphors. This can be seen in metaphors such as analogous the buzzing of bees (218) which is not only a vocalize which any audience would most uniformly be familiar with tho also a rather plain description utilized to wee-wee the metaphor unlike one that might be placed in a romantic poem for instance. Some of the other commonplace metaphors that Chandler lend oneself include lik e a window-dresser getting the effect of a sweet twist of a scarf around a dummys neck (225), as if I was some kind of strange beast escaped from a traveling circus (207), like light filtered through an aquarium store(8), like wildflowers fighting for life on a bare carry(7), like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead (17) like a puppy at the fringe of a rug(20), like a footbridge over a gully (33).