Victoria and Simonie are the most interesting couple in the novel Consumption in my opinion. Throughout the complex strings intertwining in the novel, they stand out the most. They stand out because there was a reason they met. The author meant for their connection to mean something in the novel, not to just simply exist. Simonie was, for Victoria, the warmth from the numb place she had not yet realized. To understand the two as individuals, we will know their purpose in the text. He cares very much for Victoria. The affair began, for him, the moment he saw her standing by the plane. He could not take his eyes off of her. His background being a very small, simple one, this woman was like an exotic animal. In many of cases that we see him in with Victoria, there has always been an intimate experience. But that is all. A wild, passionate fling …show more content…
His pride and purpose is in the place he lives. The reason I am brought to believe that he will make a scene comes from the man’s statement regarding Simonie’s demeanor, “Simonie had profound reservations about southerners. Simonie’s faith was shaken or he was drinking: Seeds of his past.” In most conversations that involve him and the non-natives, the tone never ends positive. Of course every young person experiments with new things and sometimes end up consumed by it. For some it is gambling, others it’s possessions. In Simonie’s case, there was a drinking problem. This guilt may way down on him more than he lets anyone see. For someone who is so tender with Victoria, he has no empathy for white men. Robertson is a white man. Perhaps this is the reason Simonie resents him. “He watched her face more carefully and, at that moment, in that intimacy, it seemed to him that his touch was purely evidence of the tenderness between them. In just a few minutes--after the glow between them faded, it would not be possible again. (pg.