He doesn’t even have a gun!
Henry, super spy! Slinking around in the shadows, weapon drawn, ready to pounce on his next… wait, nevermind, wrong character!
Henry I’m afraid is not that kind of spy. He’s an information mercenary. His job is to get up close and personal with the people he’s assigned to and get all sorts of information on them for whatever the client wishes. He is a spy of sorts but not in the traditonal sense. Actually the only relation he has to a traditional master of espionage is the fact that he and those he works with are masters of manipulation and use that tactic to get the required information.
If knowledge is power then Henry must be king right?
He could be, the poor guy, but he seems to be trouble mentally and his job certainly isn’t helping. I have a few questions that I’m curious if they will indeed get answered later on in the book.
1. Even though Henry’s job doesn’t entitle him to carry a weapon but he’s still treading on water he shouldn’t. People kill for information and I wonder if at some point his job is going to come back to bite him?
2. Henry comes off as a relatively closed off person with a lot of trouble expressing himself and now after his wife has left him (with that list no less) I wonder if that’s going to get harder for Henry or if he’s going to find a way to come to terms with the issues he’s facing?
3. Speaking of the list… I know we talked about it in class some but I wonder if that list is going to grow to bring him some mental trouble as the novel goes on? I wonder if it’s an element that’s going to be reoccuring or if it’s just a one time thing.
March 20, 2009 at 3:28 am
To answer question 1, we don’t know if his job is going to lead him towards danger, but we won’t know that until we begin to learn move about his main target. For question 2, I think that will become worse. To me, Henry is the kind of person that things like the list will eat at him until he does something. I find the thought of Lelia leaving would have affected him differently then it did and I think that this is going to come and bite him on the ass. As for question 3, I know that the list is going to fester and bring out some mental problems. But have you noticed as we go through the novel, that each part is a part of the list, almost like Henry is telling us about his life through that list.