However, he soon meets a girl named Isabel, who claims to be his illegitimate half-sister and who joins him in New York, where his attempts to support them by writing a novel fail, and where his realization of his real feelings for Isabel leads to disaster.
The protagonist reveals the central deception of this novel to his cousin and childhood friend Glen, who rejects him and later is killed by him. As the novel opens, the protagonist is engaged to the well-to-do Lucy Tartan. However, he soon meets a girl named Isabel, who claims to be his illegitimate half-sister and who joins him in New York, where his attempts to support them by writing a novel fail, and where his realization of his real feelings for Isabel leads to disaster. Subtitled "The Ambiguities", for ten points, what is this novel about Glendinning by Herman Melville?
The protagonist reveals the central deception of this novel to his cousin and childhood friend Glen, who rejects him and later is killed by him.
Pierre, or The Ambiguities