In Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler again satirizes modern man as a failed romantic hero and sets him on a quest for an ultimately inconsequential goal.
And he again relies on characterization rather than a recognizable thematic message to propel the story. Chandler's main target in this novel is corrupt city government, represented here by Bay City, both a thinly-disguised depiction of Chandler's own Santa Monica and a microcosm of all civic authority that is rife with dishonesty. Chandler invested the fictional Bay City with his studied observations of the corrupt Santa Monica.....
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