Tom Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf: Just Friends?

Posted by Kevin Donovan on January 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

In Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, our morally and sexually ambivalent hero Tom Ripley meets the man he’s been sent to recall home to New York from Italy, Dickie Greenleaf, on page 47. [SPOILER ALERT] He kills him 54 pages later. In a book of less than 100,000 words, these two young men spend … Continue reading →

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