Anthony Westgate
Mrs. Johnson
Hal 4
November 18, 2009
1. The setting of the story is that it took place in the 1928 in the city of San Francisco over a six day period through Dec. 5 to the 10. This impacts the rest of the story because this is a unique and diverse environment for which the characters dwell. It also supports and attracts a numerous amount of people for which to come into play role in the story through many crimes and tribulations. This city holds the wonderous American dream, or in other words, money, which draws different people of all over that come to achieve this dream.
2. In the story, The Maltese Falcon, the point of view conveyed is third person. We know this because it refers to every character as or by their name or other third person words. Hammett chose this point of view so the story was known to be accurately told and not by a point of view of a character in the story. Also it eliminates and opinions for a specific character. It ties in to a detective genre because it allows the reader to hypothesize about the solving of the mystery. It doesn’t have any persuading opinions in it to change the readers mind.
3. Sam does not really care about Wonderly, he just wants to use her to get what he wants. Once Effie relizes this I don’t think she would care.
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