![]() Tom agrees, tempted by the offer of money and travel. ![]() As their conversation continues, Greenleaf's request transforms: he wants to pay for Tom to sail to Italy and speak with Dickie in person. Greenleaf asks Tom to write to Dickie and ask him to return, suspecting that Tom will have more influence than his parents. Greenleaf is distraught because his son has gone to live in an Italian village and refuses to return home, even though his mother-Herbert Greenleaf's wife-is very ill with leukemia. Herbert is under the impression that Tom and Dickie were once very close, although Tom barely remembers Dickie. One day, Tom is cornered in a bar by Herbert Greenleaf, the wealthy father of his friend Dickie. Tom resents the aunt who raised him in Boston, though he relies on the small checks she sends him. He has many acquaintances but no close friends, and his parents have been dead since he was young. ![]() He makes his living by scamming elderly people and artists, but lies to his group of friends, fabricating careers and talents in order to seem accomplished. ![]() Tom Ripley is a secretive, troubled young man in New York. ![]()
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