![]() ![]() ![]() As a child, Chandler used to watch helplessly as his father drunkenly beat his mother. Williams titles his opening chapter, ‘My Father was an Alcoholic’. It is something that Marlowe (Chandler’s famous sleuth) later reacts against with great venom.” That background impacted his view of hypocrites. “He disliked that snobbery that was misdirected. ![]() When Ernest, the uncle, had an affair, because it was presented in a certain way - that no one got divorced - “that was alright”. “He saw his grandmother and uncle as being hypocritical in the way they treated Florence, for example. It made him very judgemental of hypocrites. “They were Victorians in an Edwardian era - the last vestiges of an older world that was being eroded around him. “It was a very weird atmosphere to be brought up in - a sort of wealthy, Anglo-Irish Protestant family that was riddled with snobbery, with a very backward-looking attitude to the world,” says Williams. “I grew up with terrible contempt for Catholics, and I have trouble with it even now,” Chandler admitted later in life. ![]()
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