God Save The Child by Parker

After insulting the whiz of the high school where Kevin goes, he muses, "Good going, Spenser. Insult the guy's grammar so he sulks at you and won't talk. Maybe I ought to turn back my gumshield as people keep telling me" (Parker 34). Yet, Spenser does not watch his mouth too often. Worldly-wise and a man who's seen his ordinary share of the sordid goings on in "freak-land" to the degree where he mockingly yearns for a simple case resembling Leopold and Loeb. He understands the irony and existential condition of mankind. As he says when he discovers Maguire's groundless body, "All the college and exclusively the law school and all the cramming for the bar, and someone snaps your neck for you when you're not much more than 30" (Parker 113).

However, stock-still though the wise-cracking butch detective is similar to detectives like Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade, even to the point of fancying himself a contemporary Humphrey Bogart (he can't even say Susan's eyes are brown because Bogie express "blue eyes" in a bit of talk he recreates), Spenser is a new type of detective, one with empathy and tyro regarding the modern relations between men and women and parents and their children. We see this when he and Susan are going to have sex and they are unwieldy and nervous about going to the bedroom, something Bogie as Phillip Marlowe ne'er had a problem with. He hoarsely ask Susan if he "may" k

Parker, R.B. God render The Child. Dell Publishing, NY: 1974.

Nonetheless, for all of his classic traits shared in rough-cut with hard-boiled fiction detectives of yesteryear, Spenser is a modern hero with sensibilities that fill out with contemporary issues Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade never had to face.

Yet, he does so in a manner of which they might be proud.

Earl Maguire is dead in your living room.

Inconsiderate bastard, wasn't he, I said.

Yet, Spenser is also kinda similar to detectives of classic hard-boiled mystery fiction. He is macho and he beats Harroway in part because he called Susan a "slut." Further, he has a fairly involved romance with alcohol, a classic character trait of the hard-boiled detective. In fact, more or less people in the novel seem to have a penchant for spirits of the earthly variety. Further, Spenser's wit is filled with irony and social irony. He has contempt for the social transparencies of the Bartlett's world, and, the following reply between he and Mrs. Bartlett shows he finds her superficial reality trivial in a world of sex, drugs, booze, murder and other(a) various and sordid forms of corruption:

iss her (Bogart just did) after Susan says, It's funny, isn't it? cardinal sophisticated adult people who want to make contend with each other, and we don't know how to make the tr
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