Middlesex: #3: B

Once reaching Greece with the French ship, the three passengers were given vaccinations and visas. Although the Greek government knew of their little scheme, they agreed to allow the visa as long as they left the country immediately. Once arriving on the ship, the siblings had to act as if they didn’t know each other. But surely as the days went by they acted out a flirtatious romance; It turned into the ship’s daily soap opera. After a week Lefty proposed to Desdemona in front of the whole ship, she said yes. They then immediately got married and spent their first night together as brother-sister-husband-wife. “(Why did they do it? Why did they go to all that trouble? Couldn’t they have said they were already engaged? Or that their marriage had been arranged years earlier? Yes, of course they could have. But it wasn’t the other travelers they were trying to fool: it was themselves.)” (68) After conquering the systems of Ellis Island, the married couple departed on a train. Their destination was to be Detroit. Once arriving at the station they met with their cousin. And because of the cousin’s lesbian past, she was able to keep her mouth shut when she found out her cousins got married. Once returning to her home, they met her controlling husband. He then tried to give Lefty a job at the Ford factory, through his known connections.