Letters to the Editor
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curious
I'm quite in agreement with Cary here, but is it just me or does Cary's advice seem rather more "conservative" than usual. Usually I hear Cary, when presented with these cases of adultery, talk much more about big life choices and defining who you are -- here he is definitely much more condemnatory. (Perhaps it is because there are kids involved this time around.)
I am curious, also, as to how someone could get in this kind of situation. Are there really prostitutes with a heart of gold? I always assumed that was a stereotype from Dostoyevsky. The flip side, that the "other woman" is amused, friendly and in it for the steady draw-down of what is presumably a large amount of cash (whores with good conversation I imagine to be quite expensive), seems far more likely.
Oh, and the film I remembered was Woody Allen's fantastic, dark Crimes and Misdemeanors.