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conversations.value: The Talented Mr. Ripley: Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in New York City by whatever means necessary, including a series of small-time confidence scams.\nOne day, he is approached by shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf to travel to "Mongibello", in Italy, to persuade Greenleaf\'s errant son, Dickie, to return to the United States and join the family business.\nRipley agrees, exaggerating his friendship with Dickie, a half-remembered acquaintance, in order to gain the elder Greenleaf\'s trust.\nShortly after his arrival in Italy, Ripley meets Dickie and Dickie\'s friend Marge Sherwood; although Ripley ingratiates himself with Dickie, Marge does not seem to like him very much.\nAs Ripley and Dickie spend more time together, Marge feels left out and begins insinuating to Dickie that Ripley is gay.\nDickie then unexpectedly finds Ripley in his bedroom dressed up in his clothes and imitating his mannerisms.\nDickie is upset, and from this moment on Ripley senses that his wealthy friend has begun to tire of him, resenting his constant presence and growing personal dependence.\nRipley has indeed become obsessed with Dickie, which is further reinforced by his desire to imitate and maintain the wealthy lifestyle Dickie has afforded him.\nAs a gesture to Ripley, Dickie agrees to travel with him on a short holiday to Sanremo.\nSensing that Dickie is about to cut him loose, Ripley finally decides to murder him and assume his identity.\nWhen the two set sail in a small rented boat, Ripley beats him to death with an oar, dumps his anchor-weighted body into the water, and scuttles the boat.\nRipley assumes Dickie\'s identity, living off the latter\'s trust fund and carefully providing communications to Marge to assure her that Dickie has dumped her.\nFreddie Miles, an old friend of Dickie\'s from Dickie\'s same social set, encounters Ripley at what he supposes to be Dickie\'s apartment in Rome; he soon suspects something is wrong.\nWhen Miles finally confronts him, Ripley kills him with an ashtray.\nHe later disposes of the body on the outskirts of Rome, attempting to make police believe that robbers have murdered Miles.\nRipley enters a cat-and-mouse game with the Italian police but manages to keep himself safe by restoring his own identity and moving to Venice.\nIn succession, Marge, Dickie\'s father, and an American private detective confront Ripley, who suggests to them that Dickie was depressed and may have committed suicide.\nMarge stays for a while at Ripley\'s rented house in Venice.\nWhen she discovers Dickie\'s rings in Ripley\'s possession, she seems to be on the verge of realising the truth.\nPanicked, Ripley contemplates murdering Marge, but she is saved when she says that if Dickie gave his rings to Ripley, then he probably meant to kill himself.\nThe story concludes with Ripley traveling to Greece and resigning himself to eventually getting caught.\nOn arrival in Greece, however, he discovers that the Greenleaf family has accepted that Dickie is dead, and Ripley shall inherit Dickie\'s fortune according to a will forged by Ripley on Dickie\'s Hermes typewriter.\nWhile the book ends with Ripley happily rich, it also suggests that he may forever be dogged by paranoia.\nIn one of the final paragraphs, he nervously envisions a group of police officers waiting to arrest him, and Highsmith leaves her protagonist wondering, ".\nwas he going to see policemen waiting for him on every pier that he ever approached.\n".
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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Ripley, Dickie, Dickie\'s entitled The Talented Mr. Ripley
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conversations.value: The Talented Mr. Ripley (film): Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in 1950s New York City.\nWhile working at a party, he is approached by the wealthy shipbuilder Herbert Greenleaf, who believes that Ripley went to Princeton with his son, Dickie.\nGreenleaf recruits Ripley to travel to Italy to persuade Dickie to return home to the United States, for which he will pay Ripley $1,000.\nRipley accepts the proposal, although he did not go to Princeton and has never even met Dickie.\nShortly after his arrival in Italy, Ripley concocts an accidental meeting on the beach with Dickie and his fiancée, Marge Sherwood, and quickly insinuates himself into their lives under the pretext of being a fellow jazz lover.\nOn one of their jaunts, Dickie and Ripley meet Dickie\'s friend Freddie Miles, who treats Ripley with barely concealed contempt.\nA local girl, whom Dickie had impregnated, drowns herself when he refuses to help her financially.\nRipley secretly witnesses their final encounter.\nDickie begins to tire of Ripley, resenting his constant presence and suffocating dependence.\nRipley\'s own feelings are complicated by his desire to maintain the opulent lifestyle Dickie has afforded him, and by his growing sexual obsession with his new friend.\nAs a gesture, Dickie invites Ripley to sail with him for a last trip to San Remo.\nWhilst out to sea together, Dickie lashes out when Ripley confronts him about his behavior, and a fight ensues during which Ripley repeatedly strikes Dickie with an oar, killing him.\nTo conceal the murder, Ripley scuttles the boat with Dickie\'s body before swimming ashore.\nWhen the hotel concierge mistakes him for Dickie, Ripley realizes he can assume Dickie\'s identity.\nHe forges Dickie\'s signature, modifies his passport and begins living off the allowance provided by Herbert Greenleaf.\nHe uses Dickie\'s typewriter to communicate with Marge, making her believe that Dickie has deserted her.\nHe checks into two separate hotels as himself and as Dickie, passing messages between them via the hotel staff to provide the illusion that Dickie is still alive.\nRipley rents an expensive apartment in Rome and spends a lonely Christmas buying expensive presents for himself.\nFreddie visits expecting to find Dickie and is immediately suspicious of Ripley, as the apartment is not furnished in Dickie\'s style, while Ripley appears to have copied Dickie\'s dress and manner perfectly.\nOn his way out, Freddie meets the landlady, who refers to Ripley as "Signor Greenleaf".\nFreddie goes back to confront him, but Ripley ambushes and murders him, then disposes of the body.\nAs a result, Ripley\'s existence becomes a cat-and-mouse game with the Italian police and Dickie\'s friends.\nHis predicament is complicated by the presence of Meredith Logue, an heiress he met upon his arrival in Italy and to whom he had introduced himself as Dickie.\nRipley clears himself by forging a suicide note addressed to Ripley in Dickie\'s name and moves to Venice.\nMarge suspects Ripley\'s involvement in Dickie\'s death and confronts him after finding Dickie\'s rings in Ripley\'s apartment.\nRipley is about to murder her but is interrupted by a mutual friend, Peter Smith-Kingsley, who enters the apartment.\nThough gaining the trust of Dickie\'s father, Ripley is disquieted when Greenleaf hires American private detective Alvin MacCarron to carry out a thorough check.\nHowever, MacCarron reveals to Ripley that Greenleaf has ordered the investigation be dropped and intends giving Ripley a substantial portion of Dickie\'s income, with the understanding that certain sordid details about his son\'s past not be revealed.\nMarge is dismayed at the resolution, again accusing Ripley before being taken away by Greenleaf and MacCarron.\nRipley goes on a cruise with Peter, only to discover that Meredith is also on board.\nRipley secretly placates her with a kiss, but Peter notices.\nRipley realizes he cannot keep Peter from discovering that he has been passing himself off as Dickie, because Peter and Meredith know each other and would certainly be meeting on the cruise.\nHe cannot solve this dilemma by murdering Meredith, because she is accompanied by her family.\nGoing to Peter\'s cabin, Ripley sobs as he strangles Peter to death before returning to his own cabin.