Gumb murdered his lover, Benjamin Raspel, a patient of Lecter's; Lecter put the body in the Your Self Storage garage. Perhaps Gumb was in Baltimore in part in the hope of getting a sex-change operation at John Hopkins, the medical center that provides the FBI with Jame Gumb's real name. Gumb later apparently moved (though this is not made entirely clear in the film) to a suburb of Chicago.Crawford gets the address in Calumet City from the customs bureau, which had sotpped a shipment of the death's-head mothes headed to Gumb. That address rurns out to be out of date. Gumb had moved two years ealier to Belvedere, Ohio, and bought a house, isolating himself in the cellar. He has blocked off the windows and adorned the rooms with pictures and other material. He goes about his business to blaring rock music. Thus Gimb apparently has moved from a n exotic setting to various American cities and furether to a hermetic small-town exitence in a cellar.
Gumb's lair bears a distinct resemblamce to Lecter's cell, with the latter's stone walls, decorative pictures, and lack of windows. Lecter also occasionally endures loud TV soundtracks piped in when Dr. Chilton wants to punish him. The picture upon which Clarice remarks is "the Duomo as seen from the Belvedere."Lecter's Belvedere is in Florence, not Ohio, and we may infer that he too used to travel to exotic, distant places.
Even though their current circumstances may be somwhat similar, the two men's goals diverge considerably. Gumb seems to have withdrawn into his fantasy world permanently. Lecter, on the other hand, wants the opposite-to get out of his cell at the very least, and ideally to travel once more to exotic places. In the end we see him on a Caribbean island, about to revenge himself on Dr. Chilton.
Thus the film's major parallel is between Lecter and Gumb. Clarice can exploit Lecter to catch her quarry, but she is not in any significant way like either man.
