CLOTHING
Suits: Napoleon’s (1.2); woman’s (2.8); powder blue tropical worsted suit (1.7); young black man’s dark suit, suit jacket (1.8); pale blue silk suit (2.11); oxford gray (1.9); “dark suit” (2.16); woman’s gabardine suit (1.10); one button lounge suits (2.24): dirty dark suit (young black man) (1.16); woman’s office clothes, dark suit (2.20); oxford gray shadow stripe suit (1.19); black gabardine suits (2.10); card “suits” (2.7); ill fitting Hugo Boss or Armani suit (1.26); dark gray suit, badly fitting suit (1.26);
Dresses: green dress, dressed slipped up (2.18); skirt (2.8); dress and slip (1.3); white sun dress (1.7); nurse’s white outfit, waitresses pink outfit (2.11); skirt (2.16); purple velvet dress, long flowered skirt (1.10); skirt (2.15); “magical” black dress with gold things (2.23); skirt (1.12); skirt (2.2); black velour with silver stitching (1.14); skirt (1.16); skirt (1.16); black dress with gold threads (1.18); sweaty dirty dress (2.8); flowered skirt (2.10); [not a dress but the flower print motif returns on a housecoat and kitchen floor in (1.20)]; black and silver evening dress that needs cleaning (1.24); [“dressed to look like moms”] (2.25); skirt made of hides and leaves (2.22); purple velvet dress with black silk jacket, black gabardine suit (1.26); black dress, purple velvet dress, little black dress,
Lingerie: (1.1); (1.3); (2.5); white brassiere (1.8); “nothing but her slip” (2.11); half slip, brassiere, panties (2.16); slip (2.2); slip, panties (1.16); underwear off “naked beneath her skirt” (1.16); not wearing underwear but a hat and scarf (1.17); her “best underwear” (1.18); a pink two way stretch girdle (1.20); aluminum crotch of jeans (1.22);
Other Undergarments: (1.1); chemise (1.3); (2.5); white brassiere (1.8); slip, anklettes (2.11); brassiere, half slip,(2.16); slip on and off (2.2); taking them off beforehand (2.9); no underwear but hat and scarf (1.17); “best” (1.18); shared underwear, left stockings and garter, packaged of Hanes briefs (2.10); pink girdle (1.20);
Hats: homburg, fedora (1.1); borsalino, baseball caps (1.7); black watch cap (1.8); homburg (1.9); fedora (2.23); (2.1); homburg (2.19); stained homburg (1.15); “hat and scarf” (1.17); pearl gray homburg (1.19); pearl gray homburg (2.10); pearl gray homburg (1.23)
White shirt/ blouse: gleaming white shirt (1.2); blouse (2.8); “white chemise” (1.3); white sun dress (1.7); starched white shirt (1.8); (1.9); white shirt (2.16); snow white scarf (2.23); dirty shirt (1.16); (2.20); (1.26)
Camel hair coat: [2.19]; “aluminum jeans” : (1.22); Scarf: white silk blue polka dots (1.1), “a silk scarf, snow-white with blue polka dots” (2.23); silk scarf, a Christmas gift (“made in Italy, B.Altman’s, the works”) (2.1); “hat and scarf” (1.17); “hat and scarf” (2.25); (1.25). Green Dress: (1.1). Green skating outfit (2.25). black blouse (2.25). Suede Jacket: (1.5); (2.5); woman’s (1.10). Suede gloves: (1.8). Shorts: (1.10).
NAMED CHARACTERS
Al: husband of Janet (2.16); ex-husband of Dottie (2.9);
Anna: long suffering housewife of Jack, mother of Joey (2.18); ex-wife of Jack mother of Charlie (2.6); mutual friend to Clara and Ray (2.3); is she Anna or Cora? (2.17); Anna, ex-wife and/or girlfriend of deceased, “twin” of Irene (2.26).
Bill: stoner musician, lover of Inez (2.13); former husband of Irene Greenleaf; Bill Greenleaf, salesman of the year at Ray’s firm (2.3); husband of Jenny, lover of Inez (2.5);
Blackie: old man (1.7); real name Pierre: husband to Janet, lover of Maureen, father to Clara (2.1);
Carson: married man interested in coworker (1.2)
Claire: wife of napoleon (1.2); “unsettlingly placid” “beautiful” old friend of Inez (maybe) (2.13); Clara (1.4); Clara, Ray’s wife, Maureen’s mother (2.3); (1.8); two Claires who are dental patients, first of which “Claire Page” (2.15); Clara, daughter of “Blackie” (Pierre) and Janet (2.1); niece of Ray (1.13); wife of Napoleon? (2.2); niece of unnamed old man (1.19); is she Claire or Inez? (2.17)
Charles: (1.8)
“Claudia”: (1.3); fiance of Warren (2.21)
Charlotte: secretary then mistress and then wife of Bill(2.4)
Connie Moran: lawyer (2.3).
Cora: Anna or Cora? (2.25)
Dottie: ex-wife of Al (2.9);
Elaine: friend, rival and near twin of Jenny (2.10)
Estelle: (1.9); Al’s lover, (2.9); in list of women’s names (2.25)
Ferlon Grevette: see Napoleon.
Inez: married to Ralph (2.13); married to Ralph, lover of Bill (2.5); wife and nurse of Dr. Ralph Greenleaf (2.15) “Is she Claire or Inez?” (2.25)
Irene Greenleaf: (2.4); mistress of Jack (husband of Anna) (2.8); ex-wife and/or girlfriend of deceased, double of Anna (1.26).
Ingebretsen: Pastor (2.3)
Jack: unfaithful husband of Anna (wife beater, rapist), father of Joey (“slow”), mistress of Jenny (2.18); “Jack Walsh” Janet’s former boss (2.3); Italian ethnicity, wife of Anna, father of Charlie (“cockeyed”), affair with Irene (2.6); son of Janet, grandson of unnamed (2.21).
Janet: cousin of unnamed woman (1.1); secretary and mistress of Ray (2.3); of “Jack Walsh” (2.3); wife of Al (2.16); wife of Blackie (Pierre), mother of Clara (2.1); daughter of unnamed, mother of Jack, sister of Warren (2.21).
Jenny: mistress of Jack (2.18); old girlfriend of unnamed person in San Fran. (1.5); married to Bill (in San Fran) mistress of Ralph [2.5]; associated with Warren and Poppa (2.20); friend, rival and near twin of Elaine (2.10)
[Forgot Joey]
Katy: a go-between between Ray and Clara (2.3)
Marty: Lover of Inez Greenleaf (2.15).
Maureen: daughter of Ray and Clara (2.3); lover of Blackie (Pierre) (2.1);
Napoleon: (1.2); a “young black man involved in the movie business” (or maybe real estate) married to Clara (1.4); “handsome young black man” in real estate business (1.8); a black man –no mention of age– that looks like a bank manager (2.16); (historical figure mentioned (1.12); Doctor Napoleon — young black man– Ferlon Grevette (2.2); “young black man” in a suit (1.16).
Pierre: [missed some here]; is he Pierre? (2.25)
Ralph: friend of unnamed husband (1.1); married to Inez (2.13); friend of Ray’s (2.3); married to Inez, lover of Jenny (2.5); Ralph Greenleaf, dentist, married to his nurse receptionist Inez, with two kids, (later divorced, marries another nurse) (2.15);
Ray: “dim bulb” brother of Claire (2.13); uncle of Clara (1.4); unfaithful husband of Clara, father of Maureen, with mistress Janet (2.3); old man (1.7); witness to shooting outside diner (or shot himself?) (1.11); uncle of Claire (1.13); brother of Warren father of another Warren (1.15); brother of Warren (2.24); Claire’s husband who her sister married? The brother of Pierre? or of Warren? Are Ray and Pierre and Warren all brothers (2.17).
Red Head: [started at 1.8]; (1.8); (1.9); (2.16); with binder (1.16);
Warren: (1.3); old man (1.7); brother of Ray, son of Ray (1.15); brother of Ray (2.24); associated with Jenny (2.20); fiance of Claudia, brother of Janet, Uncle of Jack, son of unnamed (2.21); Claire’s husband who her sister married? The brother of Pierre? or of Warren? Are Ray and Pierre and Warren all brothers (2.25)
Famous: Meryl Streep (2.8); Groucho Marx (2.13); Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale (2.4); assorted Hollywood actors from the narrator’s youth (1.6); Meryl Streep (1.8); John Cusack (1.12); Irene Dunne (1.13); Mickie & Minnie (2.2); Clark Gable, Gregory Peck (2.19); James Cagney, Jack Carson (1.15); Charlie Parker an other bepop era Jazz figures (2.24); movie stars named (2.8); Freud, Jung, Adler, Ferenczi (2.25); Charlie Parker, Daredevils of the red circle (1.24); Snow white, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc. (2.25); Dick Tracy, Daredevils of the Red Circle (1.25); Moon Mullins, Dagwood (1.26).
OTHER
(mentions of literature, rape, Tarzan, Worchestershire
sauce, New York/ California, Alcohol/ Tobacco, etc.)
New York: Gerritsen Avenue (1.1); Nassau country, East Flatbush, Canarsie, Chinatown (2.18); Chelsea/ Williamsburg (1.2); diner in Bay Ridge (1.4); [Papa Joe’s, Our Lady of Perpetual Help] (2.4); Rego Park (2.3) (?); “The Alpine” (Bayridge?) (1.6); Gun Hill Road (1.7); “he should have met her back in New York” (2.5); Brooklyn, Manhattan, [“Parkcrest West” doesn’t seem to be a real NY location]; Coney Island and the Rockaways (1.9); Central Park (2.15); Daily News (1.11); (New York) Times (1.12) [?]; Union City (New Jersey) (2.1); Sunset Park (1.13); “New York Clothes”, Chelsea (2.2); Bronx, Rockefeller Center, Prometheus (1.14); Rockefeller Center, 5th and 6th Avenues, New Jersey (2.19); Sheepshead Bay (1.15); Rockefeller Center, 3 deuces (52nd between 5th and 6th), Father Duffy Square (2.24); “so close to the park” (1.16); Queens, Con Ed, Elmhurst, Coney Island, Scoville’s (2.9); Fritz’s bar and grill/ Papa Joe’s [?] (2.8); eighth street, the Village, (2.10); Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech. (2.21); Bohack’s (*); Rockefeller Center, Broadway, Vanderbilt Avenue, 42nd street (2.25); Rockefeller Center, 165 W. 46th Street, Three Deuces, Father Duffy Square, 49th street (1.24); list of nine NY neighborhoods which includes Sunset Park, Washington Heights, and Bay Ridge (2.25); The Alpine (Bay Ridge) (1.25); The Alpine, Holsten’s, White plains, Washington Heights, Yonkers (2.22); Whitehall street subway station, DeRosa funeral home (de Riso?)(1.26); same funeral home, Budd Lake (there are Budd Lakes both in NJ and CA)(1.26).
California: L.A. (1.2); San Francisco “land of heart’s desire” (2.13); Los Angeles, San Francisco (Baker, Dolores, Post streets, Capwell’s) (1.5); (2.5); Los Angeles (2.2); Marina del Rey (Los Angeles) (2.7); Riverside Drive, Bank Street (2.17); “In California it’s called copulation” (1.26).
Drinks: cheap whiskey (1.1); whiskey, 7 and 7, milk (2.18); white wine (1.2); “just a drink” (2.8); iced tea (1.3); margarita, vodka, whiskey sour (2.4); “was he still a drunk?” (1.5); “too much to drink at the salesman of the year party” (2.3); saloon that was now a mosque/ cheap booze (1.6); brandy stupor (2.12); (1.7); scotch and water, gin (2.5); coffee (2.11); cold beer (1.9); straight whiskey (2.16); (1.10); milk (2.23); “his alcoholism was prelude…” (1.12); coffee (2.1); half-drunk on New Year’s Eve (1.14); (2.19); (2.24); estelle and the con ed man (2.9); (1.17); tumblers of straight blended whiskey (2.20); Wilsons whiskey; J.W. Dant, draft beer, pink gin (2.10); bourbon, bourbon and water (2.7); “probably drunk, but she may be dead”, a quart cardboard container of beer (1.20); “stopped drinking the way she’d been drinking”, California Cabernet, Hennessey V.S.O.P, Rum baba, strong coffee (2.21); smell of whiskey (1.23); majorska vodka (Ok! soft drink) (1.22); “the fathers would sit with their beer and their whiskey” (2.25); Fleischmann’s (whiskey) and beer chaser, “Tarzan’s World” (2.22);
Cigarettes: chesterfields (2.18); Gitanes (1.2); “smoker of marijuana, hashish […]” (2.13); “can you, she said, lighting a cigarette, get a goddammed ash tray…” (2.4); (2.5); “smoking two fat joints of hash” (2.16); major theme of this chapter (2.2); unopened pack of Lucky Strikes (1.15); “You smoke like a fucking chimney” (2.24); (2.9); (2.20); Phillip Morris, Lucky Strikes (2.8); (2.10); (1.20); (1.21); (2.25); stopped smoking a month ago (2.25); Wings (1.24); Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields (2.25); (2.22).
Rape: (2.18); falsely alleged (2.13); and sodomy (2.11); and sodomy (2.16); attempted (dentist and patient) (2.15); and incest (1.13); mickey (1.17); maybe (2.25).
Pregnancy: (2.13); (1.4); (1.13); miscarried (1.15).
Family of three: (1.1); (2.18); (1.3); (2.3); (1.6); (2.12); (2.5); (1.8); (1.9); (2.23); (2.1); (1.13); (1.15); (2.9); (1.18); (2.8); (1.21); (2.21); (1.23); suggested (2.25); suggested (1.25); (2.22).
Bomba / Tarzan: (1.3); (1.5); (1.6); (1.8); (2.8); (1.22); among other named movie figures (2.25).
Writer: memoirist (1.2); (2.12); “his book” (1.8); gesturing with a ballpoint pen (2.11); (1.12); memoirist (2.2); redhead with black spring binder crammed with tattered pages (1.16); “writer bastard” (1.17); (2.10); (books) (1.21); (books) (2.21); (1.25); (2.22).
Letter/ note: (1.1);(1.3); (2.3); thinks about it (2.9); to grandpa (1.21).
Literary: Freud, Interpretation of Dreams (2.8; (1.3); Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1.4); “any book that was not what he considered serious” (1.5); carrying “a Great Book through the Mean Streets” (2.12); Pierre (1.8); The Sacred Fount (1.10); unspoken fantasies of the Pulitzer (1.12); Helen and Paris (1.13); Saroyan (1.14); Jung (2.19); “crudely literary” (2.24); Ulysses, Sacred Fount, Pierre, Confidence Man, The Plumed Serpent, Lorca …(2.10); Land of Heart’s Desire (2.13); Hardy’s collected poems and the The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Janet), Ficciones (Warren), In Cold Blood (Claudia) (2.21).
Worcestershire / Ketchup: Worcestershire (1.1); ketchup (2.11); Worcestershire and ketchup (2.23); Worcestershire (1.18); Worcestershire with what looks like a blood stain (1.20); (1.23).
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HAT BREAKDOWN
Borsalino: (1.7). Homburg: (1.1); (1.9); & “Adam hat” (2.19); stained (1.15); (1.19); (2.10); (1.23). Fedora: (1.1), (2.23). Watch cap: (1.8) (this is the same information, differently presented, as is in the ‘hats’ entry above.)
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