Question: 1. What conflicts does Marlowe face and how do his attitudes and behaviors help us understand him as a detective or a man with social power?
2. Which major or minor characters stood out to you and how did they function in the story?
3. On pp. 227-228 Marlowe tells Lt. Degarmo that Derace Kingsley perhaps killed the woman upstairs at the Granada. Why does he do this? And what significance does the yellow scarf have? (See pp. 196, 234, 250-52 for help with the scarf)