James M. Cain and Double Indemnity

James M. Cain and Double Indemnity —-critical paper

Taking the character of insurance salesman Walter Huff as the primary focus of your paper, how can he be distinguished from or compared to the protagonists of
Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon or Chandler’s The Big Sleep? What does your analysis suggest about Cain’s construction of this character?
Topic
James M. Cain joins with Hammett, Chandler and Cornell West as one of the leading pre-WWII writers of hardboiled crime fiction. Cain’s work is less overtly political
than Hammett, but even edgier than Chandler in its crime narratives. Where Chandler reaches for cool moral exposé, Cain’s blunt style is more in touch with screaming
newspaper headlines that revel in a crime. Cain writes a democratic prose of everyday language and common people. He writes of ordinary men and women caught up in
their impulses, not heroic detectivesPreparation
Read John T. Irwin’s essay “Beating the Boss: Cain’s Double Indemnity” as preparation for this paper. It is available in the Course Documents section in the Cain
critical essays folder.
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