The Female Persuasion

by

Meg Wolitzer

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Cory Pinto Character Analysis

Greer Kadetsky’s high school sweetheart, Cory Pinto, is sensitive, family-oriented, and constantly in search of his sense of self. Although Cory and Greer had planned on attending Yale together, when Greer’s financial aid paperwork falls through, the whip-smart Cory accepts an offer to study at Princeton instead, attempting to lessen the blow Greer would feel if he attended her dream college without her. Cory is a caring boyfriend who comes from a loving family—his mother, Benedita, and his father, Duarte, are Portuguese immigrants who have done all they can to give Cory and his younger brother, Alby, the best of the American dream. When a terrible accident shatters Cory’s family—his mother accidentally runs over and kills the eight-year-old Alby—Cory abandons his lucrative consulting job in order to move home. Cory’s father returns to Portugal, unable to deal with the fact that his wife has killed his child, while Cory’s mother experiences grief so deep, it verges on psychosis. As Cory wrestles with his own pain, he experiments with drugs and casual sex. Over time, Cory learns to process his loss in healthy, productive ways and realizes that perhaps his brother’s death doesn’t have to be in vain. Believing that his experience with loss can help him to connect with others who have experienced similar pain, Cory begins developing a video game called SoulFinder. He eventually moves to New York, and once he secures investors and the game takes off, he reconnects with Greer.

Cory Pinto Quotes in The Female Persuasion

The The Female Persuasion quotes below are all either spoken by Cory Pinto or refer to Cory Pinto. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Female Friendship and Mentorship Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1  Quotes

Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wilhelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture; and though that night the chapel was full of students, some of them boiling over with loudmouthed commentary, it seemed astonishing but true that out of everyone there, Greer was the one to interest Faith. Greer, a freshman then at this undistinguished school in southern Connecticut, was selectively and furiously shy. She could give answers easily, but rarely opinions. “Which makes no sense, because I am stuffed with opinions. I am a piñata of opinions,” she’d said to Cory during one of their nightly Skype sessions. She’d always been a tireless student and a constant reader, but she found it impossible to speak in the wild and free ways that other people did. For most of her life it hadn’t mattered, but now it did.

Related Characters: Greer Kadetsky (speaker), Faith Frank, Cory Pinto
Page Number: 3
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Chapter 14 Quotes

He took his little kit into the bathroom while she placed sheets on the mattress of the small foldout sofa. This was an era in which sofa beds were frequently opened and unfolded; at this age people were still floating, not entirely landed, still needing places to stay the night sometimes. They were doing what they could, crashing in other places, living extemporaneously. Soon enough, the pace would pick up, the solid matter of life would kick in. Soon enough, sofa beds would stay folded.

Related Characters: Greer Kadetsky, Cory Pinto
Related Symbols: Sofa Beds
Page Number: Book Page 435
Explanation and Analysis:
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Cory Pinto Quotes in The Female Persuasion

The The Female Persuasion quotes below are all either spoken by Cory Pinto or refer to Cory Pinto. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Female Friendship and Mentorship Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1  Quotes

Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wilhelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture; and though that night the chapel was full of students, some of them boiling over with loudmouthed commentary, it seemed astonishing but true that out of everyone there, Greer was the one to interest Faith. Greer, a freshman then at this undistinguished school in southern Connecticut, was selectively and furiously shy. She could give answers easily, but rarely opinions. “Which makes no sense, because I am stuffed with opinions. I am a piñata of opinions,” she’d said to Cory during one of their nightly Skype sessions. She’d always been a tireless student and a constant reader, but she found it impossible to speak in the wild and free ways that other people did. For most of her life it hadn’t mattered, but now it did.

Related Characters: Greer Kadetsky (speaker), Faith Frank, Cory Pinto
Page Number: 3
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14 Quotes

He took his little kit into the bathroom while she placed sheets on the mattress of the small foldout sofa. This was an era in which sofa beds were frequently opened and unfolded; at this age people were still floating, not entirely landed, still needing places to stay the night sometimes. They were doing what they could, crashing in other places, living extemporaneously. Soon enough, the pace would pick up, the solid matter of life would kick in. Soon enough, sofa beds would stay folded.

Related Characters: Greer Kadetsky, Cory Pinto
Related Symbols: Sofa Beds
Page Number: Book Page 435
Explanation and Analysis: