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.
Okay, Holmes' personality...well, if we are comparing him to Ms Marple, Holmes definelty falls short in the sentimental department. Holmes believes that emotions are a sign of weakness when it comes to sleuthing, as emotions mean attachment, which mean involvement, which leads to partiality in judgment, which translates into misguided deductions. Holmes detests Watsons' love and vies never to fall in love himself lest he falls prey to that trap. This could be a good thing or a bad thing for Holmes, depending on how one looks at it. For, if Holmes' own romantic interest (God Forbid!) were to be the murderer in a case he was investigating, how impartial would he be when conducting his investigations, and what if he arrests the wrong person because of his misguided deductions? What then? However, this deficiency of emotion is also not good for Holmes as he lives his life in solitude with only Watson to provide him company and no hope of ever attaining a family. To Holmes hoewever, this is not important, so for his own benefit, it is better this way. Also, after seeing Ms. Marple do her sleuthing first-hand, i appreciate Holmes' method even more since he never takes anything for granted. Ms. Marple however, though her calculated guesses are just as certain as Holmes' deductions, are based more on conjecture than on hard evidence, because they rely so heavily on human character: a very mutable trait.
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He seems like such a cold character, and there in comparison to Marple, it shows that his idea of No Emotion, is kind of folly. Even if he got invested in one of his jobs I don't think it would hurt his perspective, rather i think its just simpler for him to avoid it. whereas with Marple she almost seems to have this quality, that she just believes in mankind for all thier good and bads, and thats very admirable. Whereas Holmes is exacting and critical of people,like Watson who is his friend, Marple seems to be more genial and loving. I think I like Ms. Marple more.
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