Barry Hannah usues a strong first person with humor and a sense of nonchalance as if nothing bothers him. But ironically everything does bother him including the loss of his wife's virginity. The character sounds as if he has command of what's happening in his life when in reality he does not. He mentions turning thirty three like Jesus then mentions vodka cocktails and trying to find the truth about sex between confessions of drunkness as if the holy spirit will reveal his sins and her sins as equal when in reality sin and religion are not one in the same. Perhaps the alcohol serves as a catholic preacher during confession but he still feels a jealousy towards her past lovers and her beauty seems to keep him from going further insane from her tresspasses.
In retrospect you see him as the older man in later years never recovering from his own drunkened ramblings about life, love and the crucifixition of sin.
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