The book is very sexual, it contains many sexual terms, such as "pussy", "cunt" and "cock" for a few. I first see this play on page 59 when Valeska comes to the Millers to care for Henry's daughter while his wife is at the doctors preparing to go into the operating room for an abortion. Miller who stays with Valeska to watch his soon-to-be daughter make love while the child sleeps. Instead of focusing on Valseska and their sex, he remembered his grandfather sitting on the bench warning his mother that Henry was reading too much, he also thought about the attack on San Juan Hill by the Rough Riders and even a trip to the Navy Yard accompanied by his father when he was a child. The fact that he thought of all these memories while he was having an affair with the woman he was supposedly “crazy” about is astonishing. This led me to believe that Henry thought about sex a lot more than we ordinary people did. He continues to have his affairs, including a one-night stand with Pauline, a Jewish and homeless minor and also an Egyptian colleague also of Jewish origin. I believe Henry views sex as a way to connect spiritually to the world. He explains that most of what surrounds him is in chaos. The world was tearing itself apart, he was surrounded by failures and he too would fail in life because of it. After living with these thoughts his entire life, even as a child, Miller was able to view sexual intercourse as the portal from which he abandons the physical world and floats toward spirituality in search of the true meaning of life, of the true meaning of life.