Summary

In "White," on the night of Truman’s party, Frank, Tenn, Jack, Sandro, Anja, and her mother leave a bar in Portofino as the sun is rising. They make a plan to sleep all morning and meet on the beach at Paraggi in the afternoon. “Tenn never missed a day of work, no matter what debauchery had transpired the night before … he showed up to his job in the early mornings like a stonemason to a cathedral” (37). As Frank watches Tenn work, he wants to profess his love; for their circumstances, for Tenn’s art, for Tenn. Frank had never done this before; he “was a tough guy … and imagined he might still have a kid or two someday, not to mention a woman to go along with those kids” (38).

Tenn would tell Frank “that his writing was shit, that he was washed up...