![]() ![]() ![]() He is a hard-boiled operative because he has the characteristics of a typical hardboiled detective, appearing cold and aloof on the outside but still remains ideal in the inside. I consider Easy Rawlins as a hard-boiled operative and a city gumshoe. I enjoy the writings of the author Walter Mosley because he relates historical events into his fictions which give a more real feel into his novels. Rawlins only acquires his license in the latter part of the series. In the tradition of hardboiled detective fiction, the character Easy Rawlins is clearly the same as that of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald’s characters but Rawlins differs from these earlier fictional detectives because at the beginning of the novels he is not a licensed private investigator thus he has no background and training in law or being a detective. Also I find the theme of Walter Mosley’s detective series significant in the study and understanding of history because racial inequalities and discriminations among the African-Americans and other colored peoples in the 1940s to the 1960s are being tackled. ![]()
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