I don’t recall if Gutman said it in the movie about the Falcon being coated by lacquer to obfuscate that it’s really made of gold and jewels. I think it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I believe Dashiell Hammett was trying to communicate through his novel, ‘The Maltese Falcon.’ In this paper I will write about why I believe what is Hammett trying to …showed first 75 words of 1131 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1131 total…know this person before you can find out. Spade seemed callous as I said but he has a devoted loyalty to Miles. He didn’t show he cared for Miles but he did in the end when he put his feelings for Brigid aside to bring his partner’s killer to justice. Of course Spade also did this because he doesn’t want to be Brigid’s sap but like I said nothing is clear.