Tom is the creepiest

I find that out of all the characters we have encountered that Tom Ripley is by far the weirdest. Like he is the strangest. I can understand every other character's motive for committing the crimes that they did, even though they were irrational they make sense. What adds to his mysteriousness is that fact that he is sexually ambiguous, and is strangely attracted to Dickie in a nonsexual kind of way. I think Patricia Highsmith was able to create such a peculiar character because she is a woman. In The Postman Always Rings Twice Cora said something to Frank about Nick that made me come to this conclusion. She stated that a man can never really know what it feels like to be in the presence of someone who is greasy, because a man could never understand the awkward feeling of someone making your skin crawl and stomach turn. I feel like female writers would be better at creating creepy characters because they know exactly what makes a man's personality and mannerisms particularly queer and unattractive. A guy writer can't really capture a creep in all his creepiness because he might not be able to capture and describe a disposition that turns people completely off.