Perhaps he is projecting his own recent lack of success, but he is right that Desmond is deluded about the scale of her fame (the fan letters she receives are fake) and her importance to the modern movie industry (whatever she thinks, Cecil B DeMille is not waiting for her call). He compares her house to Miss Havisham, “given the go-by”, and clearly thinks Desmond has been rejected too. Although he will ultimately be her victim, Gillis initially feels pity for Desmond, “still proudly waving to a parade which has long since passed her by”. She ensnares him to become her script editor as well as her lover, until, as we already know thanks to a flash-forward at the film’s opening, he will meet a violent end.
Desmond lives in dusty seclusion on the aptly named Sunset Boulevard, with her butler Max (Erich von Stroheim), until a young screenwriter, Joe Gillis (William Holden) stumbles across her house one day.
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