Word: firmin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...