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“The Maltese Falcon” is a successful novel in describing and shaping characters. The author, Dashiell Hammett, gave detailed description, including the characters’ language, behavior, and facial expressions---, to shape different temperaments. When I was reading the book, I kept thinking the temperament of the characters. Besides their appearances, I think they have deeper layer of temperament. Especially for Samuel Spade and Miss O’Shaughnessy, who are main characters of “The Maltese Falcon” Miss O’Shaughnessy, who acted in “a schoolgirl manner” all the time, was definitely not all that she pretended to be, as Spade said. Miss O’Shaughnessy, together with FolydThursby, were hired by Gutman to look for the falcon. Nevertheless, after she got the falcon from a Russian general--- Kemidov, they turned greedy and planned to process the precious statue. On the other hand, O’Shaughnessy was afraid of Gutman, who hea