The story is unfolded through someone outside of it, and serves to show events as if one were watching them as an outside party. With this novel being a mystery, this allows the reader to judge and think using their own imagination. They have to figure out upcoming events by themselves, and the “who, what, when, where and why” of things. Using this helps the reader come to their own conclusions rather than be influenced by any of the characters. An example of this is where Miles Archer, Spade’s partner, is murdered. The police accuse Spade of murdering his partner, and while Archer is murdered, they give no information or events of Spade during that. The reader has to come their own conclusion, for Spade only said he was “walking around thinking things over,” (21) and that there were “no witnesses,” (21).

Using this point of view creates tension in the story as well. The story gives only the barest minimum of information where it is needed. This novel do

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