Tod Hackett's attempts to console him.
This character is described as "one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves" shortly after waking up and plunging his hands into a basin of cold water, watching them crawl about like "strange aquatic animals." At home, he watches a lizard in his backyard attempt to catch flies. His doctor advises him to move after he has a failed sexual encounter with Romola Martin at an Iowa hotel. At the end of the novel he appears in, he stomps on Adore Loomis for throwing a rock at him. That scene takes place the day after Miguel and Earle Shoop get in a fight in his house, and he plans to leave California after discovering that Faye Greener has disappeared, despite ? Tod Hackett's attempts to console him. FTP, name this character in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust.
This character is described as "one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves" shortly after waking up and plunging his hands into a basin of cold water, watching them crawl about like "strange aquatic animals."
{Homer Simpson} [accept either]