Things Found In Gothic Culture

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Finally, another thing found in Gothic culture is the way characters may be portray. Characters may be described as monstrous, having supernatural powers, creepy, weird and can have many more odd qualities. These qualities can be found in Farewell, My Lovely and help to give the book a Gothic quality. One of the better known monster like characters is Moose Malloy, “There was a small scarred desk close to a partly boarded-up window. The torso of a man was bolt upright in the chair. The chair had a high back which just reached to the nape of the man’s neck. His head was folded back over the high back of the chair so that his nose pointed at the boarded-up window. Just folded, like a handkerchief or a hinge."(Chandler 11). No man with human strength