First Couple-Three Pages: 6/11 - ATDTDA (11): 296 - 326 --The Deep Read:

[Tore Rye Andersen]

David Morris quoted the Chumps of Choice site:

>pp.661-693
>Later, alone together at dinner, Kit tells Yashmeen of the Traverse
>brothers, for purposes of comparison. Reef: "Reckless." Frank:
>"Reasonable." Kit: "Just the baby."

But note that Yashmeen in response to Kit's characterization of himself then 
goes on to say: "I think you were the religious one" (668) - which 
establishes the nice symmetry of three adjectives beginning with the letters 
"re".

This tripartite characterization, BTW, mirrors a similar one earlier in the 
book, where Frank talks with Webb's ghost:

"It's like we specialized, Pa. Reef is runnin on nerve, Kit's gonna figure 
it all out scientifically, I'm the one who just has to keep poundin at it 
day after day" (AtD, 316)

Without arguing for or against their strengths as characters, I do think 
that there are distinct differences between the brothers. Frank, for 
instance, is consistently described as earthbound (which can't be said about 
Kit), as "the patient one" (980) (which can't be said about reckless Reef), 
or as outright "stupid" (924, 927, 995) - which can't be said about the 
obviously intelligent Kit (but maybe about Reef). Pynchon has given each 
brother a set of more or less consistent character traits which IMO 
distinguish them clearly from one another. This doesn't necessarily make 
them great characters, but I do think that they have what Tony Tanner has 
called "memorably differentiated consciousnesses."

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