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The Social Creation of the Female Detective: Miss Marple

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In ?The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side', metaphors to describe her include "as sharp as a knife" and that she has a "mind like a meat cleaver", and with this view of her, she gets a younger look being more like a country-tweedy fashioned woman, notably wealthy and gentile, with a bounce in her step (Irons and Warthling Roberts 66)...
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Through the use of ?The Mirror Crack'd, Miss Marple is show not as a fluffy, grouchy old woman, but rather a highly astute, observant person, who is a spinster, but a very social one at that. She can also be seen as bumbling or eccentric, and often times very gossipy, which is a mark of the woman's spin on being a detective, and she isn't overly nice, and can be seen as a little blunt or brutal, but this is how she has to be in order to be taken seriously by the surrounding male authoritative figures...
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