Here we see the circles in which our fair drama will take place, the Wynant-Jorgensen household, the speakeasy, and the parties that never end.
Some primo cracking wise in this day, three times he is beseeched, by the ghost of dames past (Mimi), dames present (Nora), and of dames perhaps to come (Dorothy)? Spurious connection? Yes.
There's a nice shift in tone as Nick reacts to violence, the inarticulate actions of Nora and Nick, seguing into 'What kind of clowning is this?'. The implication that Dorothy is not even one of the better known clowns of 30s New York requires further study.
I'm uncool, I know, because I keep noticing how late to bed everyone is, and how late to rise they are in turn.
I always imagined Mimi as some cross between Marilyn Monroe and a Betty boop-esque character, in that affected guilelessness.
Alice Quinn mention!
Nick won $756 at backgammon! What thr hell!