As the saying goes: It is difficult to draw a dragon and a tiger, and it is difficult to know the face but not the heart. In this world, the human heart is always the most difficult thing to penetrate, and there is no one.
Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye illustrates this very well. By chance, private detective Marlowe picks up Terry who was drunk and thrown on the street, and he takes Terry back to where he lives.
Because of this opportunity, Marlowe and Terry began to intersect, and in the spirit of being kind to others, Marlowe gave Terry as much help as possible, but the fact is that Terry has been using his mask to deal with Marlowe.
As a private detective, Marlowe should have more insight and discernment than others, but he didn't know the true face of Lushan, so he was only in this mountain. He has already become a part of the whole chess game, how can he easily find the clues inside.
In fact, in the final analysis, I still didn't really see through the hearts of the people around me, so I used the greatest kindness to do what I thought was right, but I didn't expect that in the end, I would add fuel to the fire in the chess game that others had laid out in advance, and become a complete chess piece.
Farewell is a kind of separation, and there is separation to be together, so people are not afraid of goodbye, but when goodbye becomes never to see each other again, then it is no longer a simple separation, but a long forgetting and abandonment of the past.
When Terry's cheating on Marlowe is revealed, it is difficult for their former friendship to return to the original encounter, what they thought was true turned out to be intentional acting, and Marlowe, who really saw all this, knew that this farewell was destined to be an eternal separation.
It was the first time I had read Chandler's work, and I was fascinated by the idea and layout of the novel. The biggest charm of mystery novels is that the storyline can be interlocking and logical, and it is difficult to guess the truth of the matter without reading until the last moment, so that readers are addicted to speculation and reading, but they never know what the ending will be.
"The Long Goodbye" is a very representative novel, which presents the superficial person and the person who is deeply hidden in the heart to the reader, so that we can deeply appreciate the complexity and fickleness of human nature, the secret and difficult to understand of the human heart, and it is a good work with depth and connotation.
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