daniel is your average upper middle class businessman. he's like... middle management in some company. what company? who knows. he doesn't know. what does he do? who fucking knows. he just shows up and does his job and leaves. he gets paid enough to be comfortable, but he's not rich. he spends most of his money on coffee and cigarettes (until recently) and that's really the only thing keeping him alive at this point. he's married, but him and his wife don't love each other. they got married right out of high school, so they've been together a really long time despite both being fairly young. he.. hates all of it! he's so painfully average he could die. his wife feels the same, but also just kind of wishes her husband would stop being so standoffish all of a sudden? they could probably work it out if they talked, but god forbid daniel actually communicate his feelings. he just wants a way out of his current life, and he's pretty resentful and depressed.

until he met vivian of course. now he's having an affair and wow.. he's so infatuated with her. she's wringing him dry of all his money but he doesn't care at all. he's desperate to keep her happy and to get her attention. she degrades him and treats him like shit and god he loves it. he spends like a ridiculous amount of money on her and she never acts like it's enough, but he's so pathetically desperate for her approval that he doesn't care. she makes him feel something again, so he's desperate for more of it.

his glasses slide down his nose all the time. he's too lazy to go get new ones, so he has to constantly push them up.

he thinks his wife doesn't know about his affair and that he's being really subtle, but she absolutely knows. he's not subtle at all. she doesn't care though because she's fucking one of the ladies from her yoga class.