A would-be writer whose surname is withheld, Ralph dresses year-round in overcoat and gloves. He shows up at Henry Miller's cabin, midsummer, looking to join the "cult of sex and anarchy" (Part 2, Chapter 1, pg. 45.. Miller assures him that the newspapers have it wrong and sends him to Emil White, where Ralph takes up residence until Emil cannot stand him any longer. Ralph is a typical spoiled brat; his father writes from the Midwest to thank Miller and describe what a trial it has been getting Ralph to live a normal life. Ralph burns clothing once he takes a dislike to the donor. Miller finds Ralph freezing and starving in Monterey but refuses to take the nuisance in. He learns that Ralph is arrested for vagrancy and shipped home to his father.
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