Who Did Bond Love More?
Infernorhythm
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This has more to do with the literary Bond than the film one, as Fleming certainly put more thought into this than EON did. I'm curious, who do you think, or who did Fleming seem to lean to as Bond's true love, Vesper or Tracy? He both considered giving up the life of a spy for each one, and fell deeply in love with them. Both died. Vesper's death left Bond with an annual pilgrimage to her death site to place flowers, and Tracy's death left Bond with a death wish and a promotion to a suicidal position. Did Fleming ever elaborate on who Bond seemed to care for the most?
"You're both, what's the expression? Damaged goods."
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Bond returns in TMWTGG, as a Soviet stooge. His memory has been restored, but to what extent the Russian "brainwashing" affected his feelings about Tracy is never addressed.
Tracy's death had a much greater effect on Bond than Vesper's.
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i concur in every aspect, tracy really sent bond over the edge, her death really stripped the life out of bond and really did send him on a route of despair.
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~ Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
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I don't remember Bond placing flowers on Vesper's grave in OHMSS. I thought he made the pilgrimage to Royale-les-Eaux in September to gamble. In OHMSS he just mentions her grave. Maybe I missed it.
The quote from the book:
"He had come a long way since then, dodged many bullets and much death and loved many girls, but there had been a drama and a poignancy about that particular adventure that every year drew him back to Royale and its casino and to the small granite cross in the little churchyard that simply said 'Vesper Lynd, R.I.P.'"