Marple meets Holmes, and they enjoy a cup of English tea;
- Miss Marple, just like Holmes, is English.
- Miss Marple and Holmes are both unofficial detectives whom, at first glance, appear mere amateurs
- Miss Marple, at one point during The Mirror Crack'd, is approached by an actual police inspector to assist with the case...sound like someone we know? Definetly.
- Miss Marple has her own method of solving crimes that is unique to her. Though it may not be the same as Holmes' method of deduction, it is just as effective, as is evident in the several crimes she solves.
- Miss Marple surprises people with her intelligence and just how mentally acute she really is...need i say more?
- Miss Marple abides by Holmes' theory that there is no new crime under the sun, though in a slightly different manner: she believes that people tend to follow the same trends of behavior. This, she believes, is only human.
However similar these two may seem, there are evident digressions in their characteristics...
Marple and Holmes get into a heated argument, and part ways;
- Miss Marple is very old, by any time period's standards - Holmes is still around his forties for most of the stories.
- Miss Marple cannot take care of herself the way she used to anymore due to her ripe age - Holmes is comfortably self-sufficient.
- Miss Marple is very modest when it comes to her unique eye for crime - Holmes, though he is not pompous about it, always acknowledges his achievements and makes it know that it was "simple, really, just common sense".
- Miss Marple does not have a 'side-kick' - Holmes does.
1 comment:
Wow, you move a lot faster than you used to in your analysis, verrryy nice.
Okay, being serious, I think this is exactly where you want to be in your analysis, one of the quickest ways to figure out your character is to compare them to the standard, yours def. being Holmes.
What i like is that miss marple definitly has her own personality, so whereas she is like Holmes she still is able to maintain her own methods and practices. The only thing is, now that you ahve discovered the differences you might want to look at how these differences change the genre for you or added to your understanding of what the general sleuth can be. This story definitly has the ability to add greatly to your understanding of the genre, you just have to do the dirty work and find out how.
Miss Marple in her differences from Holmes might also ask you to go back to what you thought about Holmes and reevaluate how his personality is good/bad for him.
We Shall See
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