Throughout this book Spade lets his emotions dictate his actions. When he is able to control his emotions during a critical situation everything works out for his benefit. When Spade's emotions boil over it results in violence, but the situations still end up working out in his favor. Many times in the book Spade is able to get himself out of tight situations by his emotional cool. When Spade is being interrogated by Dundy and …showed first 75 words of 998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 998 total…God damn you!" (pg.109). In this situation he is unable to maintain his emotional cool, which results in his violent nature, "The fat man said tolerantly: 'Well sir, I must say you have a most violent temper.'"(pg.109) Gutman says this right to Spade. In the end he does make a successful deal with Gutman, which shows us that Spade has the ability to get what he wants whether its through peace or violence.