AHHHHHH

Okay, I am reading UNDER THE VOLCANO, by Malcolm Lowry and I am so confused. I am going to have to get a piece of paper and figure out these characters. I thought I knew what was happening and maybe the opening is just throwing me off. I finally got to a place where it is starting to make some sense but who is M. Laruelle? He is talking in the first chapter as if he is the one who lost Yvonne, but he also talks of the Consul. If I read the back cover on the book, I get a sense of who is who, but the first pages get me confused on the characters and their importance. More later, I guess I should read this when I am fully awake and not before I am going to bed. All will be sorted in the end, I hope.