Fillmore, a young man in the diplomatic service, gets engaged to a French woman named Ginette and then confides to Miller that he's completely miserable. FillmoreĪnd here's yet another guy who's not happy in his relationship. But really, are you surprised? This is Tropic of Cancer, after all. But Boris can't think of anything more appealing than ditching his wife: "She can have everything, that cow, if only she leaves me alone" (2.5). But the wives are in America working and sending their sad sack husbands dough, unknowingly (sort of) supporting their sex addictions.Īnd, like many of Henry's friends, Boris lives in fear of his wife, who, to be fair, seems to be quite a handful. You wouldn't know it from his behavior, but Boris has a wife. Boris loans Henry a lot of money-surprise, surprise-and Henry thinks that Boris is one of the only decent writers around. The two gents are sharing a room at the Villa Borghese and working on an anthology together called The Last Book. How do we know they're friends? Well, Henry is willing to pick lice out of his armpits.
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