How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Mrs. Roosevelt was introducing me to Protestant gentry and Jewish gentry and, yes, it all began to fit and fit so well I came out […] a candidate for Congress. (1.9)
If there were a recipe to becoming a successful politician, the first ingredient would be money. For the first time in his life, Rojack is rubbing elbows with the words' wealthiest and most powerful people—and boy, does he like it. He doesn't just want to hang with rich people, though; he wants to become one of them. Deborah will help him with that.
Quote #5
I had loved her with the fury of my ego […] the way a drum majorette loved the power of the band for the swell it gave to each little strut. (1.48)
For the most part, Rojack only loves Deborah because she helps him reach his goals. Without her, he's just some guy doing some stuff—boring—but with her, he becomes someone worth noticing and acknowledging, a V.I.P. if you will. That must really bum him out sometimes.
Quote #6
I might have despised the money if it had not become the manifest of how unconsummated and unmasculine was the core of my force. (1.48)
Rojack is ashamed that he's needed Deborah to get where he is. Listen: Rojack is a macho dude, so of course it drives him crazy that he owes all of his success to a woman. Despite whatever he may say about full moons or God or the Devil or whatever, these feelings of emasculation are the main motivation behind Deborah's murder.