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Oct. 20th, 2015 02:16 pm[from here]
I’m not going to bother researching the details for an actual essay, but there are ways that the Watson of most of the Case-Book and His Last Bow is a completely different (and far less interesting and worse-written) person than the Watson of the earlier stories, and a lot of bad Watson characterization I think is based on that later version.
And Doyle by that point clearly disliked Watson (a lot more than he ever disliked Holmes, actually), from his comments on his sense of humour etc., and so he wrote him and described him in a way that’sreally annoying not really evident earlier.
Watson in the Return can figure out what Holmes is basing his observations on without prompting. Watson in SUSS can’t see through the “my friend has this problem…” line. These are two different men.
I’m not going to bother researching the details for an actual essay, but there are ways that the Watson of most of the Case-Book and His Last Bow is a completely different (and far less interesting and worse-written) person than the Watson of the earlier stories, and a lot of bad Watson characterization I think is based on that later version.
And Doyle by that point clearly disliked Watson (a lot more than he ever disliked Holmes, actually), from his comments on his sense of humour etc., and so he wrote him and described him in a way that’s
Watson in the Return can figure out what Holmes is basing his observations on without prompting. Watson in SUSS can’t see through the “my friend has this problem…” line. These are two different men.