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concept-2957	Parker, Jaxon	Tom’s European Fantasies: Commodifying Authenticity in The Talented Mr. Ripley	2024	17	.pdf	application/pdf	5398	168	45	Microsoft Word - Parker ENG.docx Tom’s European Fantasies: Commodifying Authenticity in The Talented Mr. Ripley Jaxon Parker English In an early scene of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), the story of murder and stolen identity on the Mediterranean coast of Western Europe, Tom Ripley is given a tour of Dickie Greenleaf’s villa in Mongibello, Italy, which, for Tom, “is a pleasant mixture of Italian antique and American bohemian” (49). As Kelley Wagers observes in “Tom Ripley, Inc.,” Tom’s reverse immigration from New York Harbor to Europe and his desire for a “clean slate” enacts a particularly American fantasy of effacing one’s roots to invent a new future: “Tom founds his American identity not only on a conventionally imagined erasure of his past, but also on the fiction that his is not (yet) an American and must make himself into one” (250).	cache/concept-2957.pdf	txt/concept-2957.txt