On Chandler's "Red Wind"

In “Notes on Raymond Chandler’s ‘Red Wind’” (ESTSF 9, i: 166–72), Marc Seals points out some of the features that make “Red Wind” a good story to study and teach: plot devices such as a necklace, pearls, and blackmail; the manipulation of “cultural stereotype to alternately fulfill and thwart” what the audience expects; the protagonist’s interest in the game of chess; the weather motif; and the use of guns to provide “Freudian phallic imagery.”