Hercule Poirot, arguably her most famous character, is intellectual, somewhat hedonistic, and effeminate rather than particularly masculine. Miss Marple, her spinster sleuth, is an independent, older woman who has never had a husband or children. I'm not sure if this topic should be here Off-A -but since is about a fictional character and is a lot of presuming involved ,i choose here. I's been a while since I've read the books, but I think there are quite a few times where he describes how he likes the traditionally feminine women the one I can think of now is the novel where Hastings met his future wife, and Poirot criticized how modern women couldn't dress up and behave with feminine charm. Unlikely that there was anything definitely sexual there though, maybe heteroromantic.
Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot is known for many things: his OCD, his attention to details, his adorable moustache, but what about his relationships? Did the mystery writer ever. March in Hercule Poirot. Miss Lemon Or couldn't Poirot forget his russian Lady?
Hercule Poirot's detachment is greater: He is a foreigner evacuated during the Great War to Britain as a refugee. He stands out by his manner, dress, and famous mustache. Thankyou youngmrquin, It wasn't a Girl's school, after all I am a bloke but whenever I read Cat among The Pigeons I think of the school, The School made me think Meadowbanks is the same period although I read the book years after leaving it. I started reading Agatha Christie books in my Teens too and now I am Sadly we society today seems to encourage us to judge the past and compare with Standards of Today so the question of what Agatha Christie thought of Homosexuals and whether X or Y is a Homosexual or a Lesbian is going to be raised more and more and maybe detract from her writing.
The case of the celibate detectives Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. What did Sir Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex?. Death on the Nile is one of Agatha Christie's most romantic novels, and Kenneth Branagh's movie adaptation certainly played up the novel's sexy intensity. However, one addition to the film's romantic storytelling may have created a problem and unintentionally contributed to the erasure of a certain character's sexuality -- namely, that of Hercule Poirot himself, the Belgian detective at the center of Christie's novels. With the exception of a casual admiration for the Countess Vera Rossakoff, his Irene Adler, Poirot has always been portrayed as firmly asexual and disinterested in romance; thus, his sudden love interests in Death on the Nile suggests a case of asexual erasure.
Hercule Poirot, arguably her most famous character, is intellectual, somewhat hedonistic, and effeminate rather than particularly masculine. Miss Marple, her spinster sleuth, is an independent, older woman who has never had a husband or children. And that disappoints me because as much as I like how close they come, I find myself wishing that they had gotten someone who is EXACTLY what I think of Poirot, but I know that's never going to happen because there really isn't an equal to Poirot and also because nobody can know what I imagine Poirot as being and lastly nobody looks like the Poirot I have in mind. And the Poirot I have in mind you can't make with makeup or lighting or costume or editing But I will say that Suchet does do a good job of portraying Poirot to the last detail
Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot is known for many things: his OCD, his attention to details, his adorable moustache, but what about his relationships? Did the mystery writer ever. .
Hercule Poirot's detachment is greater: He is a foreigner evacuated during the Great War to Britain as a refugee. He stands out by his manner, dress, and famous mustache. .
The case of the celibate detectives Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. What did Sir Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex?. .