Bonds Relationship with Women
AlphaOmegaSin
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Throughout the Course of both the Fleming and Gardner Novels (Have not read any of the Benson Books yet) Bond gets involved with many Woman, and only gets as far as Marriage and Proposal with a few of them. However, the Girls he falls in Love with all die (Vesper and Tracy) This brings up the Subject of Bonds horrible Luck with Balancing Commitment and his Job. Is Bond selfish in the Fact that he puts the Life's of those he Cares about in Peril without meaning to?
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
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Go back to desk work and standard duties to marry Tracy.
(also, the plural of 'woman' is 'women'. I feel I can say this as a fellow forum member who has made many language errors in my time)
( Can you tell my Wife is out at work at the moment
Very valid point. On so many levels there are big differences between literary Bond and cinema Bond. I would not suggest that literary Bond was an old romantic, but as you say Gassy Man, I also wouldn't go so far as to describe him as a womaniser either. The two characters are quite different in the respective medias.
I do think Bond is a romantic though. He believes in country and all that, despite his first-hand knowledge of the brutality required to keep it in power. He is cynical, too, but that usually accompanies a romantic who has been taught harsh lessons by life. The fact that Bond wants to believe in marriage -- to the degree that he will resign from the only other thing that matters in his life, his job -- to me is proof. After seeing all that he has and doing as that he's done, to believe in that institution with one woman requires an enormous romantic spirit.
He therefore stays away from single women because he doesn't believe it would be fair to them to develop a relationship on the very good chance it won't be a long one
and having his death causing them such grief. It's the same reason he spends so much of his time on so many luxuries.
Not quite true--Bond falls in love with Tiffany Case, and she leaves him. One could also argue that Bond loved Kissy, but of course he had amnesia at the time.
It would be rather interesting to speculate on the fate of the Bond girls who survived. We know what happened to three of them:
* Honey "had two children by the Philadelphia doctor she had married."
* Tiffany, after living with Bond, met a Marine at the US Embassy and sailed back to America to marry him.
* Gala Brand got engaged to Detective-Inspector Vivian. After marriage, she probably would have retired from the Special Branch and become a housewife, as women did in the 50s.
As for what happened to the other Bond girls, here are my guesses...
Solitaire: moved to Las Vegas and opened a fortune-telling shop catering to superstitious gamblers.
Tatiana Romanova: relocated by the Secret Service to Canada, where she met and married a Mountie.
Pussy Galore: after evading prison, she moved to Nevada and opened the world's biggest whorehouse.
Mary Ann Russell: continued working for Station F, eventually married a French count.
Judy Havelock: returns to Jamaica to rebuild and manage "Content," her parents' estate. She raises cattle and bananas there.
Liz Krest: inherits her late husband's millions and spends her days sailing around the world and taking it easy.
Domino Vitali: resumed her kept-woman ways, romancing rich playboys all over the world. Never married.
Vivienne Michel: continues her journey on scooter across North America, eventually reaching San Francisco, where she settled down to open a coffee shop in Haight-Ashbury, giving poetry readings to hippies. Never married.
Kissy Suzuki: resumed life as an Ama diver in Fukuoka and also raised Bond's son.
Mary Goodnight: took over her late boss's role as head of the Jamaica section of the Secret Service, had occasional flings with Bond whenever he returned to the island.
Trigger: executed by the Russians for her failure to kill British agent 272.