Vann’s relationship with Hopkins shaped his views on masculinity.

Evidence

Men like Hopkins are most attracted to the blond-slip-of-a-youth sort that Vann was at fourteen. … The relationship does seem to have aggravated the insecurity that Myrtle created, making Vann even more ferociously heterosexual. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1386

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1386