How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I have a terrific hunger though we've only had breakfast a few minutes ago—it's the lunch that I'll have to skip. It's only Wednesdays that I eat lunch. (2.25)
Henry has poverty down to a system. Since he doesn't have enough dough for three meals a day, he has to pace himself. And in case you were wondering—yes, prostitutes cost money.
Quote #5
This, apparently, is all that Marlowe has been waiting to hear. At last he has found someone worse off than himself. (4.14)
Misery loves company, right? And in Tropic of Cancer, we're absolutely dealing with a group where one is poorer than the next. Where does Henry fall in this chain of poverty?
Quote #6
And God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise […] A man does not need to be rich, nor even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people—the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth, it seems to me. (5.28)
Henry loves him some poverty—but only in Paris. How would you rewrite this passage if he was writing about America instead? And what is it about Paris that makes poverty seem so romantic?