I have not been blogging for a while but you must forgive me for i have been overcoming sea monsters and dragons so do not think that i was slacking for i am better than you and my greatness reigns supreme: none of you can compare!!!!!! Do you like my Beowulf impersonation?
Anyway, to get to the point-back to the blogging. First concerning your question about what was affecting Doyle's life at the time...well basically he was very unsuccessful as an Ophthalmologist thus his resorting to other pastimes and thus Sherlock Holmes was born. Holmes is British, yes. Well, as we discussed in class, a lot of the values back then were not at all like our values today-Holmes took cocaine, to the detriment of his health, yes, and to the displeasure of Watson (being a doctor, no less) but Holmes himself was otherwise nonplussed by his unhealthy addiction. For the clues in the cases, we the readers are only clued-in as much as dear Dr. Watson is, and this is usually just enough information so we can NOT unravel the mystery on our own. However, i did once read a mystery by Doyle in the Holmes saga where the author (speaking through Watson of course) actually interluded (if that's a word) and told us that we had all the clues necessary to solve the conundrum- but i was unable to solve it.
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