Analysis Of Jewish Social History: Jews In The Works Of Agatha Christie

Arnold, Jane. “Detecting Social History: Jews in the Works of Agatha Christie.” Jewish Social Studies, vol. 49, no. 3/4, 1987, pp. 275–282.

While Agatha Christie was born in 1890 she had grown up during the era of the great world wars including both WWI and WWII. Many of her writing including social and stereotypical issues within society tat many people over look. But in this article Jane Arnold brings to attention another social issues that was during the time period such as the holocaust. In her writing she includes many Jewish people while not giving them stereotypical characteristics while during the time period every Jewish person were thought to have. Arnold stats “The stereotype is that Jews think they can buy anything, including social

While she hopes to bring attention to people that read her article to realize what Agatha Christie was actually doing. This helps me understand that’s the mystery author not only included her experiences but also including her ideas of society through various characters. I do not necessarily agree with the assumption but there is a chance that the author include various Jewish individuals like the same way she included all of the doctors that had influenced her life. This article helps me understand what techniques and what ideas Christie was actually trying to tell her readers by not actually coming out and publicly stating them but giving clues and specific details. This article is completely different to many other articles since they include various background information over the time period that included the holocaust and WWII. But the only article it can be somewhat compared to is by Herbert Kinnell that compares all of the doctors in the novels to be related to many of the ideas that doctors influenced her within her young life. This helps me use objects or even characters from various novels to present a much bigger idea through my project by including characteristics to help present our

When the first news of Agatha Christie’s deaths was released it shocked the world including Betty Jochmans who had grown so close to the mystery author even stating “Through the years I felt more and more close communion with my favorite mystery writer and it was seldom that she could twist her plot around enough to obscure the identity of the murderer to me” (Jochmans). This shows how even later in her life while Agatha Christie withdrew from sanity she still created close emotional feelings with her readers by the way she created and interacted with the characters. In this passage Jochmans also believes that Christie used personally experiences and events in her life to create scenes and books such as Death Comes At The End Christie uses her archaeological experiences to create bizarre backgrounds and exotic murder methods that Christie had found while working with her husband who at the time was an archeologist