Unger. After finding out that he will soon be killed if he doesn't find a way to leave, Kismine decides to run away with John and complete their plan to get married. Despite John’s knowledge and anger that he is nothing “much better than a corpse,” as soon as Kismine vows to go with him, John’s love for her returns and settles placidly in his heart” (Fitzgerald 101). Just as Kismine considered John a commodity, John's main reason for marrying her appears to be her money. Fitzgerald captures “the glamour, the excitement, the seduction and the power of money” so well that, even when John knows he will die, he still searches for a way to continue experiencing the Washington experience.