TRTR(I.3) Hidden Profits [Epigraph]

[Erik T. Burns]

homosexuality is clearly an "issue" in TR, part of "the queer" and
also part of the 1950s scene.

there is a lot of manly joking about it ("he's a closet heterosexual")
etc., and most of the main male characters (Esther actually thinks
Wyatt and Otto have a thing) are "suspected" at some point of being
homosexual, or having such tendencies. and, as in J R, there are some
actual homosexual characters (The Swede, for example), mostly
stereotypes that would no doubt get a writer into trouble these days.

i am trying to remain bridled but there is a line in the middle of the
book that kind of sums it up:

"--You know, queer. He said he was a writer, and they're always queer nowadays".





On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:08 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I read their dialogue I constantly wonder why Wyatt would ever
> have gotten married, and especially to someone like Esther, who can't
> stand to let him be.  The intro re. his "decision" to marry her is
> circuitous...  I should read it again.
>
> Her line of questioning him at one point comes very close to stating
> that she suspects Wyatt to be homosexual.
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Something (probably not God) has denied Esther and Wyatt the ability to make a "good" choice with regard to their marriage, because they have made quite an "evil" one.  Reason was of no avail.  It served only to conceal.  Deconstruction was not yet a fad, but the first couple paragraphs sound very much like an undermining of life choices.  The logocentricism of it all.  And no Savior to come.
>