IVIV: Inherent Vice WIKI/Raymond Chandler

[Carvill, John]

I think there’s some dispute as to whether Marlowe can really be called ‘cynical’. Isn’t he too noble to be truly cynical? As for Doc, I think he’s even further from ‘cynical’ than Marlowe, although that distance is not necessarily down the same path. Maybe you could say that Marlowe *would* be cynical, if it weren’t for some of his other qualities, whereas you might say that Doc seems as though he *could* be heading towards cynicism, but we don’t know whether he’ll eventually turn out that way or not. The book’s ending, while typically ambiguous, seems to suggest the opposite of cynicism, at least on the surface.


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