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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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The talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

About the author


Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Her parents moved to New York when she was six, and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. The talented Mr.

Ripley , puplished in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995.

Summary of the plot

Tom lives in New York and can’t stay any longer there because of his committed crimes there. Tom was 25 years old when Herbert Greenleaf, a shipyard owner wants him to travel to Italy to convince his errant son to come back to the USA and join the family business. Ripley sees this as an opportunity to start a new life in Europe and went to Italy.

After the arrival he meets Richard Greenleaf and later they become friends but his wife Marge becomes suspicious of Ripley. It is then that she doesn’t want that Ripley comes along to a trip with them and Richard decides to do the trip alone with his girlfriend.

As a result of that Ripley gets fed up with him and kills him when they are making a boat trip on the open sea. After that Tom assumes Greenleaf's identity, living off the latter's allowance and carefully providing communications to Sherwood to assure her that Greenleaf has merely deserted her.

Freddie Miles, an old friend of Greenleaf, visits Ripley at what he supposes to be Greenleaf's apartment in Rome. He is immediately suspicious of Ripley and suspects something is wrong. The confrontation results in Ripley murdering Miles with an ashtray. Ripley's existence becomes a cat and mouse game with the Italian police with Ripley managing to keep himself safe by recover his own identity and moving to Venice.

Main - characters


Tom Ripley was orphaned at a very young age when his had died by a ship accident and therefore he grew up by his aunt. But Tom didn’t like his aunt always telling him he is a bad man like his father so he lefts her at the age of 20 and went to New York.

He has to stay alone there but he is able to manage his life whether with legal or illegal methods. He is a clever and talented protagonist who is going into a circle of rich people.

Herbert Greenleaf is the one who offers him a new start of his broken life and wants him to talk to his son and convince him to come back to the USA.

Richard Greenleaf is the son of his father and the shipyard owner, Herbert Greenleaf, who was not able enough to realize the cleverness of Tom so that he was killed by him.

Freddy Miles is the son of an American Hotel – chain –owner, he’s fat and as mistrustful about ripley as Greenleaf’s girlfriend Marge.


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