Explain fully Charlie's attempt to escape the past In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited,"
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Explain fully Charlie's attempt to escape the past.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited," Charlie Wales has come to Paris to try to
get custody of his daughter Honoria from his late wife's sister Marion, to whom the child
was entrusted after Charlie fell apart several years before. In order to get Honoria back,
he needs to present a facade of being much more "whole" than he really is; but he is fully
aware of …
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…Helen. She didn't say anything, she just leave the room but this is the end. Duncan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles, Charlie's past kill his dream for new, better life for him and his daughter. "They couldn't make him pay forever." Of' course not, and most probably some time later he would get his beautiful Honoria back, but what happened today become past in the future and that past may come back again to hunt him.
…Helen. She didn't say anything, she just leave the room but this is the end. Duncan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles, Charlie's past kill his dream for new, better life for him and his daughter. "They couldn't make him pay forever." Of' course not, and most probably some time later he would get his beautiful Honoria back, but what happened today become past in the future and that past may come back again to hunt him.
