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Brodkey expresses enormous ambivalence about his own later-life adventures in homosexuality, referring, at one unsavory moment, to his illness as "the wages of sin."
His new parents became physically ill, which exacerbated their psychological torture of their son (so much one could have gathered already from Brodkey's fiction).
Brodkey's work was always obviously, insistently, autobiographical--but one could get muddled trying to decide if, for instance, this story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb was the same as that story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb.
Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:
There is--unsurprisingly, given Brodkey's reputation--no shortage here of paranoia and score-settling.