Thank you for going and picking all of this out, because it really just shows how Stout is such a great writer--not just that he's got these mysteries and these characters, but how even though he has Archie tell us he's upset by Wolfe leaving and how he's sore at him, he slips in an entire world of coherent details to back that up.
I read the Slacktivist reviews of the Left Behind novels and one of the things Fred Clark points out routinely is how the characters' actions don't make any sense if you take the premises of the novel seriously. Archie, by contrast, behaves not only in dialogue and in narration as one would expect, but in all of the little interstitial actions as well.
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Date: 2015-09-07 09:57 pm (UTC)I read the Slacktivist reviews of the Left Behind novels and one of the things Fred Clark points out routinely is how the characters' actions don't make any sense if you take the premises of the novel seriously. Archie, by contrast, behaves not only in dialogue and in narration as one would expect, but in all of the little interstitial actions as well.
Poor Archie!