Brodkey expresses enormous ambivalence about his own later-life adventures in homosexuality, referring, at one unsavory moment, to his illness as the wages of sin.
Brodkey is guilty for being a homosexual male.
mnli hypothesis: Brodkey is guilty for being a homosexual male. premise: Brodkey expresses enormous ambivalence about his own later-life adventures in homosexuality, referring, at one unsavory moment, to his illness as the wages of sin.