Archie chafing when he starts to feel like a kept boy, but also Wolfe's desire to surround himself with beauty.
Oh yes!
We only get Archie's take on his own appearance, which ranges from incredibly conceited to mildly insecure. I might be remembering it wrong, but I think there is a line in one of the books where he admits that the view from the back is the best view of him?
He chafes at the idea of being kept on for beauty, but on some level I think he gets really, really upset at the idea that Wolfe might fix an admiring eye elsewhere. I definitely see Archie's paranoia about Johnny Keems and Orrie Cather trying to steal his job as being related to the fact that he admits they are both attractive men. He knows he's got them beat on every job related front imaginable, but then he also understands that people don't have that much control over what they find sexually attractive, and OMG, what if Wolfe couldn't help himself? Even if it didn't come to anything - and it wouldn't come to anything - I can see Archie harbouring a secret anxiety because he would be completely gutted if Wolfe's eye strayed and he knows that there is nothing he can could really do about it.
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Oh yes!
We only get Archie's take on his own appearance, which ranges from incredibly conceited to mildly insecure. I might be remembering it wrong, but I think there is a line in one of the books where he admits that the view from the back is the best view of him?
He chafes at the idea of being kept on for beauty, but on some level I think he gets really, really upset at the idea that Wolfe might fix an admiring eye elsewhere. I definitely see Archie's paranoia about Johnny Keems and Orrie Cather trying to steal his job as being related to the fact that he admits they are both attractive men. He knows he's got them beat on every job related front imaginable, but then he also understands that people don't have that much control over what they find sexually attractive, and OMG, what if Wolfe couldn't help himself? Even if it didn't come to anything - and it wouldn't come to anything - I can see Archie harbouring a secret anxiety because he would be completely gutted if Wolfe's eye strayed and he knows that there is nothing he can could really do about it.