Word: archers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy was twice married: the first time for a little more than a year, to Starlet Wanda Hendrix. His second marriage, to Pamela Archer, was more durable. He had two sons and was a devoted father. In his last years he and his family lived in a two-story English-style farmhouse in Los Angeles, attempting to make a new start...
...Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually settles for less...
...principal victim of Craig's compulsive degradation is his wife Ariana. Not only does he leave her at home for long periods, but when he returns he insists on telling her detailed stories of his infidelities. To triangulate Ariana's problem, Max Archer is in love with her. After initial hesitations, she returns his love. But despite beautiful times together, she is incapable of leaving Craig...
...virtue of his position as narrator, Archer is the character of greatest dimension. Craig and Ariana are more like vivified case histories. Taken together, they become an eternal threesome whose antecedents can be found in myths about princes salvaging damsels from evil spellbinders. In Wheelis' tale, though, the hero must fight without magic weapons or supernatural sponsors-conditions that do not ensure happy endings. In Craig, what once might have been thought to be evil is now seen as psychosis. Ariana is Sleeping Beauty, but no kiss is going to awaken her from the stupor that keeps her with...
...book only Archer, a man of enlightened desperation, can make the imaginative effort necessary to understand that for practical purposes, man is what he does. Like many a brave individual before him, he comes to the hard knowledge that blindness to human possibilities is like ignorance of the law. In both cases, one is guilty by default...