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Quote #7
He went back to his table. His whisky glass was empty, but he shook his head when Alix looked at it questioningly. (5.15)
It would have been very easy for Fitzgerald to let Charlie go back to drinking at this point. This is, after all, what we expect from him. But Fitzgerald upends our expectations – he keeps the story rich and surprising, and he keeps Charlie's character complicated and enigmatic.
Quote #8
He went back to his table. His whisky glass was empty, but he shook his head when Alix looked at it questioningly. There wasn't much he could do now except send Honoria some things; he would send her a lot of things tomorrow. He thought rather angrily that this was just money – he had given so many people money… (5.15)
Has Charlie come to an understanding of the limitations of money by the end of this story? If so, then why is he still intent on sending things to Honoria? Does he recognize the futility of such an action, but decide to do it anyway? Or is he still over-valuing money?
Quote #9
"No, no more," he said to another waiter. "What do I owe you?" (5.16)
This is the largely relevant question at the end of "Babylon Revisited" – what does Charlie still owe? He muses in the next line that they can't make him pay forever, but here we have to ask what he's paying for and how much longer it will take for him to pay it back.