Gutman's 'Guilty In To Kill A Mockingbird'

Gutman, when I hear his name the first thing I think of is a man with a large stomach very obese from consuming too much food and drink. Hammett gives a very vivid description of Gutman in chapter eleven "The fat man was flabbily fat with bulbous pink cheeks and lips and chins and neck, with a great soft egg of a belly that was all his torso, and pendant cones for arms and legs. As he advanced to meet Spade all his bulbs rose and shook and fell separately with each step, in the manner of clustered soap-bubbles not yet released from the pipe through which they had been blown. His eyes, made small by fat puffs around them, were dark and sleek. Dark ringlets thinly covered his broad scalp" (104). It's safe to say the sin(s) that best represent

This may be due to his lover Wilmer. Although there is no evidence of him delaying the search for the falcon one could say he is in no hurry to find the falcon because he may think his relationship with Wilmer will end if he does. Sloth is "Mental, spiritual and physical laziness, apathy, lack of motivation, despair" (Sullender 222). Some of these don't fit Cairo but, he doesn't share the motivation of Gutman or Brigid even Wilmer has contributed more to the search than Cairo. His lack of motivation can be tied in with his infatuation with Wilmer. It's evident that he doesn't put his work above his personal relationship with Wilmer. Is this really sloth or just love? One could argue that his love for Wilmer isn't sloth but when it comes to work shouldn't personal affairs be kept separate? Cairo has placed his attention towards Wilmer and he values his relationship with Wilmer more than finding the falcon the author lets us know this in chapter eighteen after Spade mentions the plan to give Wilmer up to the police. Hammett states "Joel Cairo's dark face was open-mouthed, open-eyed, yellowish, and amazed" another example is when spade knocks Wilmer unconscious Cairo springs at Spade to protect Wilmer instead of keeping to the business

She constantly calls and shows up to his office unannounced. Iva is very much in love with Spade and when she sees him with other women it infuriates her even more, to the point where she calls the police on Spade because she sees him with Brigid. In Chapter eleven she tells Spade "I sent those policemen there. I was mad, crazy with jealousy, and I phoned them that if they'd go there they'd learn something about Miles murder" (Hammett 102). The fact she saw a beautiful woman with Spade possibly led her to be envious of that woman I mean after all she may have thought of herself as beautiful until she saw Brigid. Envy is not just simple jealousy according to Scott Sullender author of The Seven Deadly Sins as a Pastoral Diagnostic System it is "An excessive desire to have what one's neighbor has, a denying of the neighbor his or her fair share. Chronic envy leads to being chronically resentful of what others have and to complaining about how unfairly one has been treated by God, others, or life itself. All this is based on an excessive comparing, contrasting, and measuring of oneself against one's neighbor" (Sullender 220). In this case, Brigid would be considered the Neighbor and when Iva see's that she has Spade's attention this causes her to be envious because she wants Spade all to herself. Iva even at times says she love Spade, in fact, he's the reason she was about to divorce her husband before