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His Wife Claire Character Analysis

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However, apart from the sexual deviations he engages in with the hospital medical staff, his ultimate object of desire is his wife Claire. She is also the object of his vindication. His metamorphosis is his plea for obliging her to gratify him in ways he was denied before. Kepesh remembers the first two years of his relationship with his second wife Claire as a time of deep affection and intense sexual prowess on his part. The last year, though, was a year of menopausal ineptness, which Kepesh remembers with a lot of remorse, “As it was, the strong lust her physical beauty had aroused in me during the first two years of our affair had been dwindling for almost a year now” (7). Actually, Kepesh regrets the fact that Claire is a “voluptuous”

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