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Ripley Recap: Marge & Dickie & Tom
Marge’s jealousy is almost as ugly as Dickie’s paintings.
The Price of Salt — indelibly adapted by Todd Haynes into the excellent film Carol — is her only romance novel, a story about a love affair between a young woman and a wealthy suburbanite that is also at least partly about the institutionalization of oppression. Margaret Talbot at TheNew Yorker points out that it’s her only book “in which no violent crime occurs.” But other, less explicitly queer stories in Highsmith’s oeuvre, like Strangers on a Train, still set up an uneasy sexual tension between its characters. It’s a testament to Highsmith’s superb crafting of these characters that even though Tom Ripley is a con artist and a grifter, not to mention creepy as all hell, I leave this episode thinking: Dickie Greenleaf is such a narcissist!
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