Week 12 Analysis: Literary Analysis of The Maltese Falcon

The novel "The Maltese Falcon" so far is a really fun read about a P.I. Currently, where I am in the story the plot hasn't really taken shape yet. But so far, Spade and his partner got job from a lady who is looking for her sister in San Francisco. His partner goes and tails the guy that the lady is going to meet up but around 3a.m. is found dead in an alley way. The plot is very interesting because it paints very vivid imagery of San Francisco in the early 40s to 50s. The theme of the story is not clearly present yet, I think farther in we should be able to see the theme a lot more clearly, but from what I could guess is that the theme would be mystery. I say mystery because his partner was just murdered and it seems like we need to piece together what happened to Archer because of the time gap between the murder of Archer and the suspect that they were tailing. The historical context of this story shows what it must have been like in the mid-1900s and be a P.I./Detective and to have to deal with a lack of technology to solve the murder of a dear friend. Overall, the book is very interesting so far and I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.