Not so surprising

After finishing the book it is pretty outstanding how similar Brick and The Big Sleep really are. Brick is basically the teenage version of The Big Sleep, change a few ages, names, locations, and really it’s the same storyline. Although unfortunately since we had talked about the similarities between the characters reading the final chapters were not the most surprising of endings. Although, it still leaves some uncertainties, such as, why exactly does Mr. Marlowe think of Mona at the end? When Mr. Marlowe and Mona kiss, I thought about if there was any correlation between Mona and Vivian. Really, they are the only two female characters that prove to have good in them. Mr. Marlowe obviously is able to see this, and feels for the characters, unlike Carmen who is throwing herself onto him, and he rejects. Another unanswered question is how did Marlowe know that Carmen was going to attempt to kill him after he had finished talking to her father. It makes me wonder if Marlowe realized it in the car and swapped the bullets during the car ride, or before. Although, I feel as if he had known that Regan was dead because of Carmen before he went in to talk to the General he would no have agreed to find Regan…