The Big Sleep Chapter 18 through 25

Reading all the situations Marlowe has been involved in or getting himself. This astonishes me that he could be so cool, calm and collected. Marlowe is flim noir James dean an example of this when marlowe surprises the Masked criminal and is able to get the gun way from him. this shows in the face of danger his manages not only to assert the situation with his intellect but uses his strength to take down a man maybe stronger than him.