Home vs. Keeliai: for one thing, he doesn't rule the societal roost the way he does in London. He hasn't got a rival like Oscar, but he hasn't got much of anything to be a rival over, and so there's a certain amount of big-fish-small-pond syndrome going on.
He also has business associates now. This is slightly horrifying to him and he stil refuses to think of himself as a tradesman, but he does actually like some of his coworkers and the like (e.g. Stocking, Arthur). As long as he doesn't dwell on the whole working-for-a-wage thing, he can cope. But he definitely feels the difference in how he relates to people like that here, versus at home.
Then there's Bryn, with whom he is repeating some of the same patterns of behaviour that he used with Dorian. But there's the added frisson in the fact that she's a woman, and Henry still has a shitty attitude about women at heart. (Some of the things that have happened between them have not helped this attitude, not that Bryn is necessarily aware of that.) She's actually quite unclassifiable according to his usual schema for women in society—but at least he enjoys it?
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He also has business associates now. This is slightly horrifying to him and he stil refuses to think of himself as a tradesman, but he does actually like some of his coworkers and the like (e.g. Stocking, Arthur). As long as he doesn't dwell on the whole working-for-a-wage thing, he can cope. But he definitely feels the difference in how he relates to people like that here, versus at home.
Then there's Bryn, with whom he is repeating some of the same patterns of behaviour that he used with Dorian. But there's the added frisson in the fact that she's a woman, and Henry still has a shitty attitude about women at heart. (Some of the things that have happened between them have not helped this attitude, not that Bryn is necessarily aware of that.) She's actually quite unclassifiable according to his usual schema for women in society—but at least he enjoys it?