Sunday Story Ratings #32: I'll Be Waiting

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I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler

Originally published 1939 in the Saturday Evening Post; this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

 

PG

(L, D, V)

Minor Coarse Language (G)

Mild Drug Use (PG) {Tobacco}

Violence (PG) {Off-screen, allusive, but emotional}

 

Representations

Gender:

One non-viewpoint woman, various men.

Sex:

A hetero romance in backstory partially driving the present, otherwise naught.

Race & Ethnicity:

Hunky used as term for person of Polish descent, applied to protagonist. A throwaway character identified as Mexican. Elsewise no indication other than white USAian.

Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:

No mention.

 

 

Notes

Raymond Chandler seems to get credited as one of the more literary crime writers of his era, and he reads like he knew it.

I was looking forward to this story on the basis of Chandler's reputation as one of THE crime writers of the early 20th Century. Not disappointed.