Noir vs. Not

Double Indemnity fits right into the film noir. It had that weird, erotic, ambivalent and cruel qualities of film noir. The character playing the insurance agent selling polices for accidental insurance kind of takes on the role of rotten police featured in film noirs. The character is suppose to be selling insurance  but instead plotting against and trying to scam the one company he works for. In which is entrapment trying  to take money with in your own company. From the website Flimsite states " An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything  can go wrong, dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment are stylized characteristics of film noir"  In the novel Double Indemnity , Walter states "Money" " Your mean you would-betray your company, and help me do this, for  me, and the money we could get out of it?" His character was in for it for the money and i feel Ms.Nirdlinger going to be his fall man. Mrs. Nirdlinger fits and takes on the role as the femme. Also from the website Filmsite states that " Very often, a film noir story was developed around a male character, who encountered a beautiful but promiscuous and seductive femme fatale..." The novel compares to a film noir because it fits the plot of a film noir, the novel is developed around a male which is Mr. Walter and Mrs. Nirdlinger being the promiscuous seductive e femme that falls for Walter, and set up a murder plot. Double Indemnity fits the qualities of a  role film noir because of it's weird,erotic, and cruel plot.Walter thinks he has the perfect plan and later in the novel it's starts to unfold.The insurance company starts to take the law in it's own hands when Mr. Keys starts to see Mr. Nirdlinger death as a suicide and then a murder. Instead of reporting it to the police Mr. Keys and Mr. Norton is going to handled it by getting Mrs. Nirdlinger to sue them for them to pay her. Mr. keys was trying to make Mr. Nirdlinger death to look like a suicide instead of an accident so that the company wouldn't have to pay on Mr. Nirdlinger policy. But starts to aspect that it was murder and Ms. Nirdlinger has someone working with her, this falls into the corruption side of film noirs. The novel has that unknown twist to it  especially the relationship with Walter and Mrs. Nirdlinger. Paul Shrader states in the article "Note on Film Noir" " Finally, there is ambiguity surrounding the woman: the femme fatale who is fatal to herself. Frustrated and deviant, half predator, half prey, detached yet ensnared, she falls victim to her own traps....."  When Walter visits Mrs. Nirdlinger and lets her know what Keys and Norton were up to she wants to back out and not even sue, then aske Walter if he stilled loved her and did think about her all the time, playing that seductive role of a film noir. Also in the novel Walter is having mixed feelings about what happen and states " I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in he power, so there was one person in the world that could point a finger at me, and I never wanted to see her as long as I lived."Walter also states that he loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake. I'm taking this as he is really in it for the money and she is going to play the fall guy.