How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
That was love with Deborah and it was separate from making love to Deborah; no doubt she classified the two as Grace and Lust. (1.9)
As we'll come to see, Rojack shares these beliefs about sexuality and then some. By separating sex from love, they're making it all but impossible to have a long-lasting relationship that's both loving and sexually satisfying. Plus, we all know how their relationship turns out…
Quote #2
"That's what woke me up—making your reconciliation with Mrs. Rojack. I was awake and I was so excited—I can't explain it." (2.56)
The noises that Ruta interprets as sex are actually the sounds of Deborah's murder. Gross. Pay attention to this one, though, because the link between lust and violence is an important aspect of the novel's view of sexuality and male-female relations as a whole.
Quote #3
Hopeless, because I should have been down on the street already, and yet there was no help for it, thirty second was all I wanted and thirty seconds I took. (3.5)
Rojack has just murdered his wife, slept with her maid, and pushed Deborah's corpse out a window, yet he's still so overcome by lust that he can't make it out the door. This shows us just how extreme Rojack's sexual addiction is: He's unable to resist his urges, even when his life depends on it.