\u201cEffie Perine sat up straight and said, \u2018Sam, if that girl\u2019s in trouble and you let her down, or take advantage of it to bleed her, I\u2019ll never forgive you, never have any respect for you, as long as I live.\u2019 Spade smiled unnaturally. \u00a0Then he frowned. \u00a0The frown was unnatural.\u201d(42)<\/p>\n
Spade\u2019s reaction to Effie\u2019s statement is very revealing of the way he uses facial expressions as instruments to mask his true intentions in social situations and to manipulate others through their subconscious reactions. \u00a0His unnatural smile at the mention of bleeding O’Shaughnessy is meant to invoke a feeling of sincerity and honesty while covering his actual intention, to acquire as much money as possible from this case. \u00a0He does something similar when he first meets O\u2019Shaughnessy for the first time. \u00a0As she speaks, he is supposedly \u201cintegrating smiles and nods\u201d(7) in order to give her a sense of \u201cassurance.\u201d \u00a0In both instances, Spade is using fake smiles to convey a sense of honesty. \u00a0Spade hides his intentions through his facial expressions, such as when he is speaking to O\u2019shaughnessy in her apartment. \u00a0When it says that \u201cthe upper part of his face frowned. \u00a0The lower part smiled,\u201d(33) Spade is trying to hide his feelings from O’shaughnessy because he doesn\u2019t want her to know how he feels about her or the case. \u00a0His creation of such an unreadable facial expression is a clear indicator of his unwillingness to reveal even the smallest iota of his inner workings; he does not want to express a positive or negative emotion that would give his thoughts away, thus his fusion of both a \u201cfrown\u201d and a \u201csmile.\u201d \u00a0Spade\u2019s smile is a finely crafted instrument that allows him to mask his true emotions, allows him to invoke false feelings of confidence in others, and allows him to hide his intentions from anyone who would stand in his way. \u00a0Spade is an accomplished detective and he uses all tools at his disposal, including ones that allow him to both gather information from others and keep others from gaining information about him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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