The novel ends with a scream and the punch line, which is actually an allusion to the end of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, writing "Now vee may to perhaps begin, yes?"
The novel ends with a scream and the punch line, which is actually an allusion to the end of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, writing "Now vee may to perhaps begin, yes?" The narrator discusses his father's dinner guest one night, a coworker named Anne McCaffery. He also discusses his litany of failed relationships, among them a girl from Davenport, Iowa he names the Pumpkin. He is also left by a woman after a failed threesome in Greece, and for rather lewd reasons, he names her the Monkey. He later implores his kinsmen to "put the id back in yid." Alex narrates all these events to a psychiatrist in, for 10 points, what novel by Philip Roth?
The novel ends with a scream and the punch line, which is actually an allusion to the end of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, writing "Now vee may to perhaps begin, yes?"
{Portnoy’s Complaint}