The character of Lou Kline provides more insight into Bennie’s character.

By the end of the novel, Bennie has experienced failures in his career and his marriage and is now enjoying a second marriage and a renewal of his career through his reconciliation with his childhood friend, Scotty. Through the course of the novel, we learn that, despite his financial success, Bennie’s insecurities about his physical appearance and ethnicity interfere with his aspirations to integrate into the privileged country club society in New York. She marries her college boyfriend later in life, has two children and channels her interest in collecting personal objects into a form of artistic expression.Ī second narrative arc in A Visit from the Goon Squad concerns Bennie, a divorced music executive in New York City when we first encounter him, he is suffering anxieties about getting older and about his relationship with his young son. She eventually lives up to the promise in the opening chapter and experiences a form of healing. Through the course of the novel, we come to learn about Sasha’s difficult childhood and self-destructive youth. At this point, Sasha is no longer working as an assistant to Bennie Salazar, although the fact that she still talks about her boss indicates that she still identifies with that job.

In “Found Objects,” Sasha is on a first date when she takes a wallet from the purse of a woman in the restaurant restroom. The first storyline to emerge in the novel is that of Sasha, who struggles with, among other issues, kleptomania.

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