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Characters
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Guy Haines:
- architect, talented
- has a girlfriend
- psychic very weak
- dreams a lot
- closed
- likes Bruno in special kind
Charles Anthony
Bruno:
- young, rich & spoilt
- doesn't work, lives like he wants
- drinks a lot of alcohol
- he loves Guy like a brother
- has a good relationship to his mother but he hates his father
Gerard:
- detective from Samuel
- clever, old
- special, strange
sacrifices:
Miriam Joyce:
- Guys wife
- rather pretty, red hair, a little plump & not intellectual
- wants to live again with Guy when she hears that Guy is going to be a famous architect
Samuel,
Brunos father:
- is a man who thinks money is the most important thing on the world
- makes a lot for money
thinks that his son should work
About the author:
Patricia Highsmith
- was born in Forth Worth, Texas in 1921 an grew up in New York.
- studied English, Latin and Greek
- After leaving college she spent some time providing story-lines for the comics.
- Her first book "strangers on a train" appeared the first time in 1950 an was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- Her most popular literary creation was "Tom Ripley" in 1955
- She won several Awards
- She died in Switzerland on February 4th in 1995.
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