e, sinister, bored, and scared, the perfect jezebel. Marion and Charlies relationship in Babylon Revisited seems to be the internal conflict between the rich and the poor in the depression. Charlies life is summarized as the pursuit of pleasure. He did not work hard; he played hard, where one might have worried; he would have been carefree. Until he lost everything [he] wanted in the boom, his world, wife, money, and then his daughter (Fitzgerald Babylon 229). A man such as this would not be expected to love as he did his wife and he does to his child. Through his character, an awfully anxious [man] to have a home can be seen who is trying to find a place where love is present in a loveless world (Fitzgerald Babylon 219). He could receive some love from his daughter, but one person stands in the way, a woman with a grudge.Marion is deprived of money, more than anything in the world, she would love to live the rich life of no responsibilities, but she can not. She is not able to love, like the other women studied, but because her heart is hardened to it. She now can only hate. Marion hates Charlie because she can see him living the life that she should be living, more than that; she hates him because she blames her sisters death on him. She had forgotten how hard [Charlie] worked for seven years; she only remembers one night (Fitzgerald Babylon 224). He is her broken mind, is evil; evil needs to be punished, so she takes out all of her aggression from her life of poverty and hardship onto him. Marion, because of all this is not well and . . . cant stand shocks (Fitzgerald Babylon 228). She wants to keep Honoria with her, supposedly to protect her from her evil father, but she is actually keeping her to spite Charlie. For if Charlie has love, he has everything. Marion is desperate for things she can never have (i.e. money, love, her sister life, freedom from responsibilities).In Conclusion, all of these characters wanted s...
