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A business associatewho visits Dexter in New York. Devlin is friends with Judy (whom Dexter has not seen in years), because he is best friends with her husband, Lud Simms. He casually mentions that Judy’s beauty has faded and that she is in an unhappy marriage with Simms who “drinks and runs around.” Unlike Dexter, Devlin never found Judy’s beauty remarkable and, despite thinking her “a nice girl,” he believes that she is inferior to Simms.
Devlin Quotes in Winter Dreams
The Winter Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by Devlin or refer to Devlin . 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:
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Section 6 Quotes
A sort of dullness settled down upon Dexter. For the first time in his life he felt like getting very drunk. He knew that he was laughing loudly at something Devlin had said, but he did not know what it was or why it was funny. When, in a few minutes, Devlin went he lay down on his lounge and looked out the window at the New York sky-line into which the sun was sinking in dull lovely shades of pink and gold.
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Dexter has just learned, from his business associate Devlin—a friend of Judy’s husband from Detroit—that she is in a miserable marriage and that her beauty has faded. Worse, Devlin is unconvinced by Dexter’s opinion that Judy was once “a great beauty.” The dullness that he feels in response to this news, as well as Devlin’s underwhelming response to Judy contrasts with his understanding of Judy as one of the “glittering people” or, rather, as a “glittering object” that he once coveted. When he looks at the sun setting over the New York skyline, its dull loveliness mirrors his sense of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut
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Devlin Character Timeline in Winter Dreams
The timeline below shows where the character Devlin appears in Winter Dreams. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Section 6
One day, seven years later, a business associate from Detroit, a man named Devlin, comes to visit Dexter. Devlin mentions that “the wife of one of his best friends,”...
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...to feel like rushing out and getting a train to Detroit. He feels disoriented by Devlin’s underwhelming response to Judy. Devlin remembers that Judy was “a pretty girl” when she first...
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