The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Explore the role of women in Chandler's novel (Vivian, Carmen, Agnes, and Mona). How are these female characters depicted, victims, femme fatales, sex objects, or...

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Title: The Big Sleep
By Raymond Chandler
Contents
Introduction    3
Role of Women in Chandler's Novel, their Power and Other Details of the Novel    3
Depiction of the Female Characters    5
Conclusion    6
Work Cited    7
Introduction
Raymond Chandler was an American British novelist and screenwriter born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1888. At the age of 43 years, he became a writer after losing job as an oil company executive because of great depression. He has written many novels and the particular based on the female character in his novel The Big Sleep. The current paper is about how Chandler has represented women’s in our society and what power and rights that women enjoyed are also being discussed in the essay. The representation of male characters and the female characters are shown through his novel “The Big Sleep” and the things, which need to be changed, are even further discussed in the paper.
Role of Women in Chandler's Novel, their Power and Other Details of the Novel
In the novel written by William Chandler, The Big Sleep, stereotyping of genders are shown and that represents that how during those periods women were actually seen. The novel displayed that how the male masculinity has dominated over the female feminist and they are exploiting them in every way possible. Even today, the women are being objectified in every way possible. In the novel by Chandler, The Big Sleep, the first half of the novel was completely written about the gender stereotyping and many examples were presented to prove that point. Almost all the female characters that Chandler has mentioned in the novel play simple and secondary roles.
Different characters have been used by Chandler in his novel such as Vivian, Agnes, Carmen and Mona. They are all represented by Chandler as unintelligent and an object of sex. Carmen has been shown as dumb, frivolous, spoiled rich girl, who constantly gets into trouble. Carmen has been shown that she uses her looks to persuade men and makes them do whatever she wants them to do. Carmen’s sister Vivian is a harsh, cunning and hard women who always seeks out danger and gets into trouble.
Further, it was added that she was very attractive and flirts with the main character Philip Marlowe. Again, her...