A man's job Agatha Christie's Miss Marple with special reference to murder at the Vicarage

• Autor(a) principal: Terenas, Maria João Faria Pessoa
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/12119
• topic: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 - Personagens; Romance policial inglês - séc.20 - História e crítica; Teses de mestrado - 2014

Abstract: This dissertation is focused on only two of Agatha Christie’s earlier works on detective fiction featuring her second most famous sleuth Miss Marple namely: Thirteen Problems (1930) which was published in the United States of America under the name of Tuesday’s Night Club and Murder at the Vicarage (1932). 2 From 1900 to 1930 goes a time span of just thirty years, but they were crucial to Humanity. They were days of development and devastation, of suffering and enjoyment as the world had to deal with one World War and its aftermath. In order to better understand the character Miss Jane Marple several events of Agatha Christie’s own private life were taken into consideration. Agatha Christie places her character in the tiny village of Saint Mary’s Mead to make her look credible and between these two elements there is an interchange that helps in the characterization of both. In the end Miss Marple reveals herself, she is far more than the frail, old spinster who enjoys snooping and has a knack for murder, is the embodiment of Englishness.