THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY

BRAINSTORMING.

1.    Retell the story, giving critical point of view, but proposing a different ending.

2.    Retell the story, putting in charts the main events that happened in each chapter.

3.    Retell the story, write the main events that happened in each chapter, retell the end of the story.  Give my critical point of view, and based in this critique, suggest a different ending.

Choosen Idea: Number 3.

OUTLINING

STORY

CHAPTER 1.

Herbert Greenleaf had been looking for somebody who traveled to Europa and brought his son Dickie back home in EE.UU, because of that he had been follow to Tom Replay, an old friend of his son. Tom, who was wanted by the police in New York, spoke with Mr. Greenleaf in a bar. Mr Greenleaf proposed him a travel to Europe to persuade his son Dickie return to home in Unites States.  Tom welcomed the opportunity, which he could change his boring and unsatisfying life.

After Tom had a dinner with Dickie´s parents, where Dickie´s mom, showed to Tom some photographs of Dickie, Tom traveled to Mongibello, south of Naples, where Dickie lived in that moment.

 CHAPTER 2.

Began a new start in the Tom Ripley´s life, with a new job and great incomes, because of that, he didn´t need more the money of his aunt (he had an Aunt in Boston, who lived with him and bring up him).  Tom traveled until Mongibello to meet with Dickie Greenleaf, who didn’t remember to Tom, but however, when Tom arrive to his home, Dickie remembered that his father was write him about he. Next, Dickie introduced Tom with Marge Sherwood, his friend, who lived near of him, in the same beach in Naples.

Some days after Tom arrived to Naples, he realized that Dickies loved paint and sailing. Tom told Dickie, that he had been sent to Naples to convince him returned to home with his parents, but Dickie said to Tom, however, he never would return home. After this conversation, Dickie helped Tom to find a hotel in Naples.

 CHAPTER 3.

Tom and Dickie started a friendship; hence, Margie felt jealousies, because in that moment, Dickie spent more time with Tom than with her.  Also, Margie thought Tom was in loved of Tom, which was false, because Tom only wanted have a life like the great Dickie´s life, fill of money wealth.  Tom and Margie didn´t get along, because of that, when Dickie and Tom planed a travel to Roma they didn´t invite her. Now, they were ready for their trip to Roma.

CHAPTER 4.

Before his trip, Tom received a letter from Mr. Greenleaf, which said, that he (Mr. Greenleaf) didn´t need more of Tom´s service, because until that moment was obvious that Tom couldn´t persuade Dickie to return home.  After that, Tom felt loss, because he didn´t want leave his new life in Europe, and for achieve his purpose, Tom planned a macabre plan for the trip, which consisted in kill to Dickie and usurp his life and identity for steal his money. And that way, he did; kill to Dickie in the boat which they traveled, Tom sank that boat, and leav me the Dickie´s corpse in the middle of the sea.

He returned to Naples, for some possessions of Dickie-like clothes-. Obviously, Marge  asked him about Dickie, but Tom had prepared  a story for who question him about Dickie, then, he answered to Margie: Tom is in Roma, he asked me for come here to Naples and bring him some clothes, because he is very busy in his new home in Roma.  He going to spend all winter in Roma; said Tom to Marge, because that reason Margie was very sad, because they had planned do together a lot of activities for the winter.

CHAPTER 5.

Tom traveled to Roma and usurped the Dickie´s identity. There, he lived like if he was Dickie, he spent the Dickie´s checks, and he bought an apartment in Roma, in that moment, he had his dream life, but one day, his planes changed.  A friend of Dickie, Freddie, arrived to Tom´s apartment (supposedly Tom was Dickie) asked for Dickie. Tom was afraid, and said him that Dickie was outside and that he come back later. Finally, Freddy realized that Tom was lying, and when Tom felt discovered, he killed to Freddy too. 

CHAPTER 6.

The day before Freddie´s death, Tom was planning a trip to Silicy, but in that moment, the police visited to Tom Ripley (Dickie), to ask him if he knows something about the death of Freddy, because they had find his corpse in the morning, and they knew that Tom had stayed with Freddy  overnight. He was afraid because the police knew that Freddy had been killed, and the police officers told him that he couldn´t travel to Silicy, because might need him after to ask him some questions more.

After of the police´s visit, Tom go out to drink something, and advised that there was so much papers with the news: American murdered on the via Appia Antica; he read all papers and in the final paper he saw another news: the police had found a sunken boat with bloodstains near to San Remo, that boat was in which he had killed to Dickie. Tom was very afraid.

Some days after, police officers, visited again to Tom (Dickie), asking him, if he knows to Tom Ripley, and he said “Yes”.  In that moment Dickie (Tom) was suspect of murder.

Finally, the officer allow to him, travel to Silicy, but he should give they the name of the hotel where he was going to be.

CHAPTER 7.

Tom wanted leave Roma immediately, but when he was leaving his home in Roma, Margie visited him and asked him by Dickie, Tom gave her mistaken information about where was Dickie.  While Margie tried find to Dickie, based in the mistaken information that Tom gave her, Tom traveled to Silicy and Greece and there he lived like Dickie, but he realized that he was lonely. Until that moment, Tom was traveled a lot of places, using the money and checks of Dickie, and forging his signature, and one day Tom (Dickie) received a letter from the Dickie´s bank; because they realized that the last signatures of Dickie were false.

Tom, replied that letters and said at bank that all was ok, and he had all his money and never had suffered a robbery.

CHAPTER 8.

Tom (Dickie) received a letter from Police Station, said him that he should went to Roma for answer some questions about the Miles case, in that moment, Tom decided be again Tom Ripley; because of that, he becoming Thomas Ripley again. Tom traveled to a town called Trento, he traveled identified always with his own name: Tom Ripley.

One night he had a dinner in a restaurant, and he read a newspaper and saw that the police was searching for Dickie and also they were searching for Tom Replay, because they thought that Tom Ripley was missing. Tom Ripley look for the police in Trento, and introduce himself like Tom Ripley, then, the Trento´s police called to Rome´s police and told them that Tom Ripley was in Trento. The police of Roma visited to Tom in Trento and asked him about details of Dickie and Miles. Tom felt free, because he felt in that moment, that he was not guilty of the two murders that he had performance, because in that moment he was Tom Ripley.  Finally, Tom was offered to help them to find some clue of the whereabouts of Dickie.

One day, Tom had an idea: write a letter from Dickie to Tom (signed by Dickie), saying that he leaved his money and his income to Tom. 

CHAPTER 9.

Margie visited to Tom in his house, in Trento, they spoke a lot about Dickie, and Tom realized that his relationship with Margie was better than before, when he lived in Naples.  She told him that Mr, Greenleaf was in Rome, waiting for some information about the whereabouts of his son, and also, she told him, that Mr. Greenleaf  hired a private investigator for find his son Dickie.  Then, Tom decided call to Mr Greenleaf y offer him to find his son.

CHAPTER 10.

Mr. Greenleaf arrived to Trento to visit to Tom. He and Margie, looking for Mr. Greenleaf in the train station, after, they had a dinner, and Mr. Greenleaf told to Tom, that he had paid for an Americans detectives, because the police in Roma haven´t did nothing for find to Dick.

CHAPTER 11.

Tom was questioned by a detective called McCarron (the American detective), who asked him about Dickie and about the Dickie´s behavior in the last days that they had been together. Tom told him that Dickie had committed suicide, which was a lie.

CHAPTER 12.

After some days, Tom called to Mr. Greenleaf, and told him, that he had found a letter to Dickie from he (Mr. Greenleaf), immediately, Tom set a copy to Mr Greenleaf, and that letter was the letter that Tom had wrote some months ago, like if he was Dickie, and in this letter he wrote that Dickie leave his money and his incomes to Tom.

Mr. Greenleaf sent that letter to his lawyers, finally Tom received all money and possessions of Dickie.

 MY POINT OF VIEW.

For my, the final of this story is unfair, because a person that had lay and had killed for achieve his objectives don´t deserve a happy end and a happy life. Because of that, I suggest the following end:

…but when Tom Ripley received all money and possesions of Dickie, met a beautiful woman, who finally stole all his money.  After of that, Tom Ripley had to return to Boston, whit his Aunt and with his miserable life.  Also, some days after Tom was arrived to Boston, the police found him and he had to pay 20 year in jail.