Erasure

by

Percival Everett

Wiley Morgenstein Character Analysis

Wiley Morgenstein is a Hollywood producer who meets with Monk (as Stagg R. Leigh) to discuss plans for a film adaptation of My Pafology/Fuck. Morgenstein is caught off guard when “Stagg” comes off as less “Black” than he imagined he’d be but feels too uncomfortable to say so out loud.

Wiley Morgenstein Quotes in Erasure

The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Wiley Morgenstein or refer to Wiley Morgenstein. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Race and Identity  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 12 Quotes

Somewhere in Hollywood, Wiley Morgenstein smoked a cigar and contemplated the commercial value of My Pafology. He sat poolside with a big man from New Jersey with whom he attended two years of school at Passaic Junior College thirty years earlier.

Wiley smiled and relit his cigar. “They go to the movies now, these people. There’s an itch and I plan to scratch it.”

Related Characters: Wiley Morgenstein (speaker), Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, Stagg R. Leigh
Page Number: 193
Explanation and Analysis:
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Wiley Morgenstein Quotes in Erasure

The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Wiley Morgenstein or refer to Wiley Morgenstein. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Race and Identity  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 12 Quotes

Somewhere in Hollywood, Wiley Morgenstein smoked a cigar and contemplated the commercial value of My Pafology. He sat poolside with a big man from New Jersey with whom he attended two years of school at Passaic Junior College thirty years earlier.

Wiley smiled and relit his cigar. “They go to the movies now, these people. There’s an itch and I plan to scratch it.”

Related Characters: Wiley Morgenstein (speaker), Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, Stagg R. Leigh
Page Number: 193
Explanation and Analysis: