Holmes deduces...
As we all remember, Holmes uses his keen eye and his method of deduction in order to solve the most complex of crimes.
...while Miss Marple...well...she remembers, associates and attributes.
Miss Marple's method is simpler than it sounds. This is how it works;
- Miss Marple is very old,
- And she has met several people in her life,
- And because of this, she has had or observed very many experiences of several people in the past.
- As she observes these experiences, she begins to associate the way people act with their characteristic traits eg. a woman (let's call her 'lady x') may remind her of a past acquaintance ('lady y')who got cheated on because she was too trusting in her husband, this would make her atribute lady x with the memory of lady y and therefore would be able to tell what type of woman lady x is simply through her past association with lady y. So, if lady x's husband were to suddenly turn up dead, Miss Marple would not look too far to find a suspect and the motive - perhaps lady x, upon discovering her husband had cheated on her, killed him, not so much out of contempt, but out of disbelief that her husband, whom she loved and trusted, could do such a thing to her. All this Miss marple would consider, simply because she knew someone else who went through the exact same thing.
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Okay....so how effective do you think this method is. Now, I'm not discounting that if it works for her then it's good, but esp. in comparison to Holmes.
It just seemed, that when Holmes used his deducing method, it was more objective and therefore less likely to be wrong. He made it based off of generalizations probally but not solely on them.
I guess what I'm asking is, firstly how effective You think it is. And also doesn't it seem like her method is a bit more faulty, or likely to have hasty generalizations that end up in her mininterpreting the case?
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