lady in the lake raymond chandler & women in white comparative Essay Example

the adjective ‘perplexingly’. Therefore, it helps us to identify “The Women In White” extract to be older due to the choice of outmoded lexis used by Wilkie Collins. Further identity differences between the narrators of both extracts is also created by Wilkie Collins and Raymond Chandler through syntax. This can be seen by, ‘The voice, little as I had heard of it, had something curiously still and mechanical in its tones, and the utterance was remarkably rapid.’ This is a example of a complex sentence used to describe the emotions and actions of the narrator. Whereas, Raymond Chandler uses simple sentences to describe, ‘There was another heavy silence’. Also, the sentence structures used for Marlowe and Halter can be seen to create a idea , of how educated the characters are, which again helps to further a more detailed understanding of the character’s identity. This is because simple sentences are more commonly used by children and can be seen to suggest basic interpersonal skills, whereas complex sentences can be seen to reflect excellent interpersonal skills.

Dialogue is successfully used by Raymond Chandler and Wilkie Collins in each extract, which helps to provide not only a sense of identity for the characters, but to also highlights further the difference between each time period in which the text was written. For instance, Wilkie Collins states “May I trust you” . The implication upon the modal verb “may” helps to convey Anne to be a very polite and well mannered lady, who can be considered old- fashioned to readers of the 21st century. Contrastingly, dialogue is also used to help create the identity of the characters in “Lady in the Lake” .Although, in this case the dialogue helps Marlowe to seem more modernised through the Americanism “aint”, since Americanisms are mainly used in modern English, but it also helps to suggest to the reader that our character Marlowe has an American accent. As a result of this it also helps us