The Role of Marlowe’s Excessive Drinking Throughout the book “The Big Sleep” the character Marlowe is a detective working in Criminal Justice. This job seems to bring about a lot of stress to Marlowe, and in order to cope; he turns to drinking which relaxes him. Although he is an alcoholic he still is able to function and get his investigations done. He is a functional alcoholic who abuses alcohol constantly and has a …showed first 75 words of 853 total…

…showed last 75 words of 853 total…or simply for the reason that he is bored. Marlowe’s life functions around and off of alcohol, and sometimes turns violent towards weaker people usually women after drinking. He does not care what people think about him, and he does not care about other people. Which is expressed by his drinking, and driving, and abuse of women. Or if he continues to live life around alcohol he will end up in “The Big Sleep.”