"The Big Sleep" Extract Analysis

The extract of "The big sleep" tells the story of a man who gets away from her wife, it is interesting how he talks of death. He mentions that death is The Big Sleep, like there is no way of knowing how death is, the protagonist believes that it is like sleeping "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep...", when we sleep, we don't feel anything, maybe we are dreaming but we remember the dreams when we wake up, not at the moment they are happening. The protagonist compares the situation of a dead human to his, does it really matter the where you are when dead? What matters is that you are dead, you are not there anymore. He feels like part of nastiness, and thinks that someone who is dead cant be bothered by things like this, it doesn't matter if he is in a dirty sump or in a marble tower, he wont be bothered. Thanks to certain elements in the text such as the feeling of nastiness of the protagonist, i can conclude he is somehow feeling identified by life and death, because of what happened with his wife.