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Ken is Reva’s married boss with whom she is having an affair. He mistreats Reva at work. While Reva claims this is to ward off suspicion of their involvement, the narrator thinks that he simply dislikes her. After Reva becomes pregnant, he immediately ends the relationship and transfers her to an office located in the World Trade Center, where (it’s implied) she dies in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ken Quotes in My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The My Year of Rest and Relaxation quotes below are all either spoken by Ken or refer to Ken. 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:
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Chapter 5
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I had to admit that it was a comfort to have Reva there. She was just as good as a VCR, I thought. The cadence of her speech was as familiar and predictable as the audio from any movie I’d watched a hundred times.
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Chapter 6
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I wanted the old half life back, when my VCR still worked and Reva would come over with her petty gripes and I could lose myself in her shallow universe for a few hours and then disappear into slumber. I wondered if those days were over now that Reva had been promoted and Ken was out of the picture. Would she suddenly grow into maturity and discard me as a relic from a failed past, the way I’d hoped to do to her when my year of sleep was over? Was Reva actually waking up? Did she now realize I was a terrible friend? Could she really dispose of me so easily? No. No. She was a drone. She was too far gone.
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Ken Quotes in My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The My Year of Rest and Relaxation quotes below are all either spoken by Ken or refer to Ken. 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:
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Chapter 5
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I had to admit that it was a comfort to have Reva there. She was just as good as a VCR, I thought. The cadence of her speech was as familiar and predictable as the audio from any movie I’d watched a hundred times.
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Chapter 6
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I wanted the old half life back, when my VCR still worked and Reva would come over with her petty gripes and I could lose myself in her shallow universe for a few hours and then disappear into slumber. I wondered if those days were over now that Reva had been promoted and Ken was out of the picture. Would she suddenly grow into maturity and discard me as a relic from a failed past, the way I’d hoped to do to her when my year of sleep was over? Was Reva actually waking up? Did she now realize I was a terrible friend? Could she really dispose of me so easily? No. No. She was a drone. She was too far gone.
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