The moviegoerWalker Percy

1-28-00 Moviegoer book report In Walker Percy’s story The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling, a Stockbroker on the verge of turning thirty is on a quest. Set in 1960 New Orleans during Mardi Gras Binx, an upper class southern gentleman sets out to find out about himself. Answer questions that have tugged at his soul. Questions about despair, everydayness, religion and romance. Binx is stuck in a quagmire. He must break out from this cloak of …

…lap?” Binx: yes. Kate: And you will be thinking of me just that way? Binx: That’s right. It’s at this point that Binx and Kate have found what they were looking for. Certification. Certification that a moment in both their lives, marked by the simple gesture of a flower and a common thought makes everything real now; not just the image of things being real. They have each other, not despair and everydayness.