The Talented Mr. Ripley

Particia Highsmith explores the mind of a lonely psychotic man in her novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Tom Ripley is a man who has spent most of his life uncomfortable in his own skin and in desperate search of the right script (in this play that we call life) to follow. In a way, and in different degrees everyone past the age of seven goes though that. Just as Tom dreamed of living the type …

…my friend in mind. I was a foreigner to myself, and that alone made doing daily routines such as picking my clothes out for the day exponentially more difficult. At the end of that stage in my life, I still had some mannerisms of hers but instead of holding fast to those characteristics, I put variations upon them so that I could finally (like Tom) call myself an individual who was proud to be someone.