Summary

In the evening, after The Sympathizer’s aunt and the handsome and humorless lawyer have gone to dinner, BFD comes to pick up The Sympathizer in his convertible and they drive to Heaven. The conversation between them is scant, but BFD asks about The Sympathizer’s aunt. The Sympathizer does not mention her affair with the handsome and humorless lawyer. BFD implies that The Sympathizer has known many women, and The Sympathizer is ashamed. The Sympathizer leads BFD into Heaven, which is much the same as before. The Sympathizer observes that even in Heaven BFD looks well-dressed and cosmopolitan. Only one other man in the room, an American capitalist whose archetype The Sympathizer muses is endangered, is as well-dressed. Crème Brûlée emerges and greets the endangered capitalist with the same familiarity with which she greeted the Ronin. While...