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twenty-two
concern
women.
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celebrate
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tries to
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looks
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relations
and
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Ron
social
marrlage.
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to
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of
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Stella reminds
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ship's
talk about
has
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separately,
groups
anniversary.
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stories,
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couples
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applied
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which
contains
stories
them
his
to
Tobias
to
1)
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tains
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focus
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it is illuminating.
criterion
in Part
of the first section
portion
but
of his childhood,
the memoir
Two
about
necessary
Wolff's
of this essay,
Wolff
B. HIGGINS
pleasant
tell the truth
of Tobias
to
asked
things
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by
simply
tell
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tells
102
Beth
to pass
everyone
is greeted
Waltz"
with
by her egotistic
"
they
…what
A mood
of falsity
The
elry store.
which
is imparted
features
in her
the costume
Nora
He
Anniversary
is afraid
has
marriage
details.
platinum-bleached
hair.
kind
"The
to
years
wasted
of passion
been
already
cor-
is :
of others
(G, p.97)
of."
synthetic
a
dance
of the feelings
numerous
is
of fifty
at him.
days-old
diamonds.
Howard
party
description
and
thinking
out
in
he
as
own
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Stella grinning
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make
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wears
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story
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silence.
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swashbuckler.
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has
the costume
decidedly
a
the party
at
press
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the
four
lieved
find
to
man's
insistence
showlng
importance
any
able to remain
genuine
his true
he is
understanding
feelings.
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they
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have
their
Voyage"
do
on
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the ship
have
positive
‥.
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not
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of his wife's
aware
for others.
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she
first evening
beyond
fallen
old
fundamental
The
young
tries to
make
at dinner,
wife
the
and
the Alpha
and
Omega
of human
(G,
p.
but
forglVe
him
and
92)
had
is re-
basis,
decency
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man
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himself
the social director
love."
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no
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and
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marrlage
man
sides.
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hair
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grotesque
is pathetic,
character
he is crotchety
when
in her
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couples:
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97)
p.
Howard
plastic
he thinks
and
for her.
affection
wears
of his wife's
her unfaitbfulness,
that
pretensions
of consideration
our
elicits
for whom
dance.
when
she is safely
of love, but
afraid
Truman,
and
the goodness
on
at discoverlng
she is generally
not
(G,
squire‥‥
:
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up
in "Maiden
that
wife's
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characters
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even
century
eighteenth
like Harry
ever
comes
she
against
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young
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of Nora
view
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(G, 90)
voted.
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husband
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called
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for
and
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decides
are
advance
to
kind
turn
103
form
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wife
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and
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view
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afraid
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of life. They
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home
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try
indistingnishable.
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tries not
passion
reflect what
own
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so
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wife
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up
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action.
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television.
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and
is characterized
neighbors
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the erotic vio-
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the neighbors
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particularly
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see
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couple's
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their marrlage
them.
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falls asleep.
off
with
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she is disturbed
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for his sick wife,
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platinum-blonde
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neighbors'marrlage.
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covered
seem
couple
a
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band's
fend
Truman
stories,
the sterility of
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out
women
three
other
her husband
have
of Tobias
his unfaithful
with
his Harry
with
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:
love.
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to
salesman
swashbuckler
married
cared
Truth
and
and
is
who
a
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Technically,
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and
third person
narration
in the past
of his sterile marrlage.
the husband-wife
Ted
1ng
the
of them
how
comfort
Ted
Helen's
she
once
but
she
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with
two
Mitch
and
story
thirtieth
more
and
tense
to
us
allows
the
awareness
intensifies
names
in
avoids
developlng
course,
of
customary
of twenty-two
out
of the present
of
slaps
her
her
her
have
own
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to
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an
the
directly
focus
across
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on
a
Francisco
Helen
mOrnlng
boy
the face
of golng
who
;
party
cocaine
in their life. As
to help
fear
in
all-night
followlng
done
ever
husband
marrlage.
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couples.
birthday.
they
controlled
defends
story
only
use
lack
the
Wolff's
in the
is, marrlage.
that
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of
for reflection
time
and
tell the best thing
falls asleep.
her,
bad
friends,
some
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name.
he does
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invited
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instead
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style.
usual
of the first person,
use
aS
his wife
others
syndrome,
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celebrate
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relationship,
"Leviathan"7)
to
has
Wolff's
tense
tense.
having
his marrlage
experience
from
in the present
mostly
of the narrator's
problem
where
differs
of the characters
none
which
Door"
in-
she is telレ
had
Down's
her
friends
tO
Work,
try
they
104
Betb
decide
foursome
of this
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and
the day
to spend
devastating
people
marlJuana,
the
Two?
Ted
Mitch
to
ing the
them
back.
Helen
she took
flippant
done.
ever
into
was
serious
she talks abollt helping
ber,
out
even
taking
durfly
to
scratch
thought
flippant
comments
the
that
about
(B,
syndrome,
of Tom
care
a
par-
the best
thing
school:
then."
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typify
of divorced
problems
she describes
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back
routine
with
the
have
should
in high
was
she
is threatening
her kids except
see
together
put
War
as
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p.
190)
Tom,
she
kind
continues:
of beatitude
num-
….''(β, p.190)
is proud
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over
out
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get
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the boy
started
to
bummed
Helen's
and
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example
(β,p. 183)
right?"
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of Wolff's
As Mitcb
cry.
good
tough."
is maintained
that
says
can
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problems
and
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"Still, Bliss
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She
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man
"All
she won't
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only
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on
celebration.
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cocaine.
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Helen's
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move
have
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what
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story
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with
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and
the party
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asked
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marrlage.
in dialogue
During
speak.
Helen
"What's
ents･
with
their
view of contemporary
is written mostly
for the way
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noses
and
vacuity
of
relationships
their irresponsibility
and flee from depression
deny
smoked
their
stuffing
the
"Leviathan"
ear
her,
with
B. HigglnS
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need
you･
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that
I'm
character
few
a
pointers,
:
old Ted
and
horrendous
where
the king
says
and
is
is concerned
just the
I'm
man
the expert.
to
them
glVe
You
might
to
say
(β,p. 188)
of horrendous."
then:
"Put
solute
on
your
bottom-line
crash
helmets,"
confession.
Ted
The
went
Worst
on.
Story
"You
Ever
are
about
Told."
to bear
my
(β,p. 188)
ab-
Fiction
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words
At
a
of
the end
Truth
and
The
:
Works
classic, mindless,
male
egotist.
of the story
they
decide
when
of Tobias
to
take
Wolff
more
105
dialogue
the
cocaine,
is
apt.
again
"My
Helen
energy
level isn't too
high,"
"Mine's
pretty
Mitch
nodded.
``Then
we'll
to
went
more
get
"I
just have
Bliss said.
low,
too."
to
bring
it up,"
Helen
this,"
Bliss
said.
"Where
said.
(B,
did
you
194-195)
pp.
don't
cocaine.
believe
Helen
it?"
get
shrugged.
"That's
lot
a
of toot,''Mitch
have
"We'lljust
do
to
said.
best,"
ollr
Helen
"We've
said.
all day."
got
(β,
p.195)
We
The
last
band's"
insistence
story
him.
the
se.
to
as
ends
The
how
the
man
gulf between
of discoverlng
Unlike
the stories
concerns
find
and
a
Ricky.
The
her
Ricky
and
The
She
is awakened
early
upon
her and
it she also says
about
self
her again.
on
drive
home
tries to
woman
closed
encollrage
had
a
the
been
off forever.
to
him
to
sexually
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to
sympathy
by
But
sleep.
to
come
to
compared
for
She
tells him
thinks
to
someone
he's
share
is still open
she
for
mornlng
a
man
who
had
He
love
misused
treats
in the
forces
he says
bar.
himself
nothing
home.
go
tO
golng
his life with.
to
son,
he tries to force him-
should
always
life
together
away
When
as
they
go
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drinking
her.
she is awakened
and
to
behind
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her
and
divorced.
his invitation
he stays
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on
per
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who
marrlage
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out
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night
away
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marrlage.
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to
woman
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accept
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for him.
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to
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despite
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husband
decides
back
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about
after
that,
by his excitement
a
of
her
next
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learn
we
dark
far, "Face
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her.
be
to
appears
and
is in the house.
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she feels sorry
so
and
is emphasized
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in the
introduce
for the weekend.
love
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them
and
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kindly
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marriage
discussed
neighbors
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happlneSS.
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her hllSband's
proposes
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features
confirm
feeling
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stories
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the
ment
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be eavesdropplng
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seem
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be alone
Although
sees
arouses
the
man
concern
the
and
the
as
106
Beth
that
she
may
be
take,
too
she
better
together,
The
women.
ple in "Desert
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nant.
three
next
a
spare
car
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way
start
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women
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born
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have.
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sees
become
then
too
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young
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However,
put
up
and
only
and
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them
women
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sees
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son,
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and
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the other
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to
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the gas
his wife
station,
her hllSband
wishes
husband
(ironicallya hearse)
car
when
at
California
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for
his wife,
the
one
Back
with.
how
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find
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up
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cou-
into town
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is picked
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in the
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wife
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marrlage
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just starting
the older
is
character
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it. Like
to
believes
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his wife
makes
gestures
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poacher
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stands
together
warm
explaining
together.
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to
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we
that
way
is held
family
had
re-
returned,
already
is
who
a
by
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as
be is unable
of reconciliation,
he is unable
beaver.
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his wife's
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a
lovely
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been
man
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are
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doing
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defend
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is his.
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reclprOCate.
scene
and
constantly
and
the
sus-
family
is interrupted
scene
the last time
who
flimsy
extraordinarily
his land
on
there
(β,p. 151)
well-intentioned
and
been
really
which
Door",
a
never
mattered.
together
is shooting
in "Next
had
in "Poaching"
his wife
accept
sprlng
that
out
cartoonist
someone
the couple
in the
a
he
be there, because
be there in any
to
about
Omen:
to
how
and
the
separation,
himself
to
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and
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his plan
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the highway
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lived
characters,
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to hitchhike
husband
relations
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central
criticizes them.
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gas
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be let out
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asks
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at
and
crew.
him
sexual
In
going
family
apart.
forward
stop
simple
family.
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husband
rationalizes
only
he
never
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in Germany
course
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part
will be better
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when
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dignity.
unlike
is meanlngless.
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as
have
this seemlngly
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up
realize their marrlage
wife
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industry.
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part.
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and
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the
of
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happen
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will allow
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sees
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by
the family
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had
as
an
Fiction
had
they
...
been
Truth:
and
an
The
offered
Works
branch
olive
of Tobias
Wolff
and
not
were
107
far from
(G,
home.
p.154)
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lets his chances
man
feel of the
scene
to
the beaver
with
his family
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Peculiarly,
it works
bus.
However,
of logic.
on
a
fiction
as
must
within
period.
he isn't there
consider
another
possibil-
fiction.
Of
and
the reader
this informa-
accept
tO discover
The
it takes
on
commentary
and
settings
the doctor's
the story
a
glVen
The
brain
well.
flashbacks
at
in
only,
are
without
to
pleCe
title. This
lying
we
when
tend
the
it's surprlSlng
in those
his relations
because
place
within
it
character
twenty-four
office, at the bus
is richly textured
of his parents'character,
observations
We
we
reflection
the
time
church,
that
does
structure
at
fact
the
his mother
fact, yet
longer
much
by
Is his
aト
particularly
liar in the
of his lying･
with
sisters have
family,
told what
suspension
of
is the
is living
two
and
of the
and
is compounded
problem
Because
at home,
simple-I
long-distance
ous
a
the rest
nature
we
His brother
about
in the
at the plot
cover
learn
but is intrigued
hours.
twenty-four
We
is simply
tires at the thought
If
has died.
Interested
as
information
this
His father
her private
the mother
It be-
attention.
James,
sixteen-year-old
narrator
for the
the necessity
tion･ about
ity:
including
child,
is the
yet
special
Since themati-
(G, p.155)
books.
except
James
The
storytelling?
it is worth
youngest
home･
in flashbacks.
has died.
:
the
from
father
whose
is complex,
everything
Francisco.
away
the father,
fact,
read
of the story
moved
makes
Liar"
line
wonderful
mother
the time
"The
12)
family
a
hours
station,
of the boy's
with
them,
and
bad
taken
from
on
and
a
continu-
his
be-
own
havior.
In the
drawer.
He
had
son's
told
prlVaCy
"What
a
lie about
is immediately
self-awareness
her
his mother
SCene
openlng
lS
her health,
evident.
a
letter
She is seriously
saylng
It doesn't
she
occur
her
to
that
her
ill. Her
her
son's
lack
of
invasion
of
reprehensible.
difference
her thought.
reads
(G,
does
p.
155)
it make
if James
has
nothing
to
hide?"
--that
was
108
Beth
She's
devout
a
Catholic
funny
the
several
son
is still lying
She
Back
felt cheated
at home
fice, and
He
him
gives
tells James
is
there
keep
bear
a
had
humorous
they
learn
we
it," and
James
that,
the boy
After
by
The
her
be
upset.
with
family
to
trip
and
unin-
enough,"
In
later
a
had
who
close to his father
grown
this point
at him.
father
the
At
"enough's
rocks
son's
is in his of-
intrepid
remarking
had
the
if she knew.
a
motber's
throwlng
sided
mother
is about
episode
thereafter
bad
her
doctor,
and
who
the
won't
their campsite.
only
that
bone.
return
"Beat
One
family
the
James,
tO
infuriate
his mother
is shown
character
telling the bear
flashback
invaded
because
responsibility
tllrnS
to
the father.
about
Murphy,
the doctor's
so
God
with
of
one
church
(G, p.156)
calls Dr.
Dr. Murphy
secret
At
to charities.
guaranteed
his lying
is upset
be known.
about
him.
On
llp
counsel
interlude
when
tentionally
some
to
long
a
Yosemite
twice
she hangs
She
occurs.
contributions
argue
is her custom.
as
the letter and
They
son.
Angry,
condition.
Mass
she let her feelings
She burns
the
daily
story
her large
and
agaln,
is treating
who
in the
episodes
despite
to
goes
and
B. HigglnS
insisted
because
he had
realized:
As
we
what
…
the father
him.
He
was
had,
really
was
dying
of
alone
with
him
be in his bed
should
boy's
difficulties
with
happy
her husband
had
gry
with
…
so
his mother
Day
help
to
had
sat
he
when
him
with
died.
his dead
carry
illustrated
are
(G, p.167)
who
He
body
in this passage.
died in bed, but she happens
Mother
was
and
l had
could
know.
to
find out
and
to
read
felt his father
The
upstairs.
At
the truth
first she
gets
and
is
an-
when
told her the
not
not
heard
she
on
go
the
story,
truth?
Or
that
Father
believlng
shocked
because
she bad
had
died
furious.
and
learned
in bed?
Why?
the
trlltb,
I really
don't
(G, p.168)
is agood
he doesn't
Year's
friend
a
James
was
New
on
fear.
shared
James.
Because
This
a
it
cancer
got
and
was
which
know
example
of why
if his mother
we
was
to
tend
angry
take
because
the
narrator
he had
lied
at
his word.
or
she
had
He
says
found
out
the truth.
When
about
James
gets
the letter. Since
home
from
he had
Dr.
promised
Murphy's
many
office
times
be
apologlZeS
in the past
to
tO
stop
his mother
lying
but
Fiction
had
nothing
to
ever
him
glVe
is what
yourself,
age
won't
you've
I thought
Just
they
as
lying,
they
he
up."
about
that.
interrupted
are
the mother
know.
James
watches
he has
a
voice.
stay
sees
poor
with
pulled
show
that
After
His
tries
mother
a
together
Dr.
me
good
at each
ing through
his mother
He
while.
He
in but
agrees
that
becallSe
James
go
day
she
the next
and
Liar"
dinner
doesn't
doesn't
suggests
"The
to
stays
he himself
says
join
to
throughout
kissed
and
was
sincere,
else does
her handbag
not
the send-off
and
my
wben
count
the
passengers,
waved
pulled
out
my
and
gunned
mother
l
When
englne,
agaln
were
Then
eⅢbarrasslng.
seat.
the
the
she had
we
and
looking
extra
he
at
when
his
resumed
at each
other
l stood
got
other,
up
we
checkand
ad-
waved
to
suddenly
As
seat.
with
and
began
each
he
hav-
never
the bus
finished
to
second
else's,
Mother
smiled
Shrugged
When
an
I boarded
thing.
same
I sat
me
like everyone
Just
for something.
over
held
then
me,
the
until it became
other
driver
a
humor
her
everyone
j11Stedthe luggage
for
by.
James
wants
of his constant
the effect
dropped
lies but
leaves,
know
example.
embrace
that
had
and
Murphy
against
her
he
you
life. All you'll
all about
about
who
When
(G, p.168)
agreement
why
in Lo§ Angeles
is
ing realized
waved
109
to tell you.
trying
at
logical.
Murphy
slng
I'm
anything
SOme
is considerable
at the bllS Station
Sbe
tO
James
them
There
off.
know
by Dr.
ask
his brother
him
Wolff
has little effect.
what
It seemed
be comlng
to
seem
you
made
and
and
of Tobias
naturally
that's
cheating
be my
to
Works
advice.
"You're
get
The
:
the apology
changed,
some
Truth
and
the
bus
relief. (G,
plain
p.173)
On
the bus
fat lady
a
videsanother
gry
and
good
offers
"Hey,
bag
full of chicken
of her chicken
some
God,"
a
of Wolff's
example
bin
by
with
she
booted,
ear
sits down
for language.
to
next
bin.
She asks
James
town
that
She
pro-
if he is hun-
:
``look at
him
go
to
on
drumstick!''
(G,p.173)
When
she asks
"How
James
about
Ihopeso!"
himself
about
you?"
She
(G,p.174)
:
slapped
my
knee.
``Parents
own
a
chicken
ranch?
110
Beth
The
bus
driver
breaks
down
about
the delay
"Keep
your
his head
The
an
it sounds
as
in what
.‥
boy
had
and
say
eyes
closed
The
to
like
Someone
rainstorm.
the
asks
:
in
a
hurry
jollyfat
lady.
up
makes
grown
to get
L.A.
to
have
to
ought
in Tibetan.
he slngS
tO
surely
an
them
his parents
where
The
of his stories
one
another
in Tibet
up
story
ends
had
with
tells
and
been
people
killed.
relaxing
:
ancient
to be in his element.
seems
a
He
something
was
a
(G, p.174)
in James.
orphan
him
asks
with
is vivid;
in
replies
"Anybody
on!".…
is interested
her he is
She
pants
driving
are
the fat lady
and
examined."
language
She
they
while
B. HigglnS
holy
and
The
boy
as
best
(G, p.175)
tongue.
lies to
the last, but
it has
a
religious
feel.
We
bid.
left to interpret
are
It may
not
be, then,
We
certain.
his father's
but
death
how
ago
neither
He
long
his lying
that
says
failure
a
his father's
We
can.
we
the
was
know
origin
his father
died
his mother
made
that
his lies
of his lying.
nor
if he had
feel
:
are
mor-
But
it is
lied before
(G, p.165)
in fact:
his mother
and
velop
but
Slnglng
voice.
She
new
to
appear
be
an
seems
stuck;
she's
understanding.
I thought
of Mother
with
easy
rior
to
apart.
confidence,
mine.
She
language.
(G, p.172)
She
to
unable
In contrast,
could
it
combination
She
doesn't
change
her perceptions
came
imaglne
Magnum
to
me
look
he's embarrassed
at
Mysterium,"
to
things
me
as
his puns.
understand
realize
can
She is
of opposites.
doesn't
the boy
"0
slnglng
and
p.165)
unfortunate
he doesn't.
thinks
(G,
well.
of his facility with
appreciative
joys
the family
she managed
…
He
know
death.
...like
that
his lying
that
comlng
of her
her in
new
saylng
She
his
and
de-
son
:
grace,
together,
en-
about
ways
her imagination
un-
praylng
was
not
supe-
falling
Fiction
She
thinks
days
later when
seemed
the
be doesn't
events
bid for attention,
l
Finally
believe
staged
them
as
into
get
Will
tO
confesslng
ply imagine
of
the
--death.
Tbe
boy
son's
lying
never
occurs
be
to
her.
"he's
way.
him
was
My
realizes
his
She
doesn't
can't
and
a
curser
My
did not
l had
a
or
Does
and
is
deathly
to
person-
to these
ques-
the
to
reaction
efthe
of interpretations
muddle
the
he has
is irrationality.
natural
ultimate
ill. The
she, too,
that
sneak
a
Is be
he is fak-
of describing
way
a
this at
he sim-
repressed
death
to
powerful
a
We
it?
Does
that
sad
answer
any
reaction
at
take
be does
he have
Is there
leads
to
we
Assuming
not?
terrified,
to
the mother's
he's faking?
faking
Confusion
being
abandonment
possibility
might
that
abandon
her
him,
:
169)
him
understand
of candles.
was
imaglne
bewilderment
p.
desperate
be puzzling.
can
that
of his fear
furtive.''(G,
she
because
reveals
if it's for her
sensible
he's
the boy
Are
crylng?
technique
think
hours
Mother
them
this out.
lonely,
so
mother's
few
connected
a
out,
l wept.
for her benefit"
mother
living.
literary
his expression
father
:
go
on
have
A
passage:
accept
in which
be the most
may
for
not
blocking
and
to
fall apart?
life situation:
lighter
a
(G, p.162)
boy
The
been
never
she's unlike
She
of view
lies about
may
his
most
them
open
curious
sorting
just dislike
the
left to
one.
matches
he
that
point
those
loved
a
Does
be argued
on
try
he'll completely
or
to
a
willing
them
Is he
the funeral.
she may
other
Is he actually
cry?
a
iffl
162)
p.
we
Does
he's faking?
he
was
his faking
accept
tears?
can't
"illoglCal"
an
which
The
the
let go?
can
fect of death
But
the mother
why
can't
if
is
each
narration
of questions
that
Wolff
cried at
was
there
"staged
the
own,
she thinks
It
tions?
death
first person
in his emotions
ality and
Thus
(G,
faking
the tears,
hold
for her benefit.
tangle
a
face value?
1ng
she
his
refused
feeling
a
hugged
but
as
well
he hadn't
his behavior
We
eyes.
tears,
my
of the unusual
thoughts
can
my
opened
really
Because
There's
In this
section
both.
or
of Tobias
had
and
it's obvious
although
Works
because
his eyes
closed
of his grief.
unconvinced
two
The
his father
miss
he had
Truth:
and
:
brother
of the
dark.
and
And
sisters
took
he loved
after
to
cutse
her in this
the
dark.
112
Beth
It wasn't
This
real issue
the
was
It is this child who
She
two.
her.
him,
Apparently,
died and
the father
who
his
fear.
the mother
son's
tells is
son
is seriously
lS
it, yet
there's
he
that
doned
now,
tongue
is
an
he couldn't
tion and
truth
us
life and
about
In two
about
ter.
back
One
calls home
the
gusted
comes.
thinks
turn
When
Tucker,
doesn't
of calling
him,
to.
too,
home
understood
The
last
lie the
and
the
lie that
slgn
he will
stop.
Indeed,
We
He
is completely
Tibetan.
an
aban-
His
have
had
heard
device:
the
look
a
lying
fine
exceptionally
We've
guide.
ex-
the ef-
at
his fictions
in
tells
narrator
a
us
of fic-
is the embodiment
storyteller
lnterWeaVlng
uses
two
to
Speaks
the boss's
love
but
teacher
a
a
care
prank
in
a
her
to
take
to
call her
talk
with
him.
pass
is alone.
Their
is disgusted
by
the
at
her girl friend.
of her brother:
stranger.
thea-
home.
It's
father,
but
father
Her
Next,
At
she
is out
adults'love
find his number.
a
some-
movie
mother
can't
call to
home.
lives
letters to their mother.
She
name.
made
to
broken
and
job
part-time
phone
chance
brother,
his last
a
are
stories
a
of
had remarried
is late coming
a
These
role.
children
father
She has
get
had
background
a
Their
younger
takes
he does
extraordinary
he writes
he
she
why
Liar"
literary
and
She
she makes
she
our
is fifteen.
her favorite
because
Finally,
she gets
know
off
bad
who
himself
the bus.
on
is about
doesn't
her
him
know
no
tell truth.
have
accident
although
now
fiction.
and
she
doesn't
is
This
in California.
and
were
sends
been
is dead
"The
fictive
one.
she is alone.
children
finds
to
parents
an
his father
unfamiliar
of truth.
Attractions"13)
has
and
that.
tongue,
fictions. Our
sister, Jean,
do
to
of it and
liar has been
stories,
answers
Jean
with
to
fa-
my
and
easily have
would
the faculty
an
of fiction
truth
him,
If it had
father
passengers
speak
become
and
boss
and
but
man.
life. She
adult
The
writes'the
a
her
of six and
with
him.
his mother,
speaker
A
have
"Coming
East.
her stepmother
with
between
household
a
On
feels ashamed
clearly
-
death
midnight
never
a
their mother
night
around
their morbidity.
was
orphan.
particularly
of Wolff's
live with
where
a
know
they
;
siblings.
They
it
been
failed
the fact that
an
can
the living.
with
have
upsets
the art
uslng
on
doesn't
to the other
one,
been
the
and
honorable
an
had
lived, perhaps
he
peace
orphan,
of fiction
things
it had
as
up
his lying
it brings
They
It's not
indication
no
fect of death
work
Mother;
feels she has
ill ; he's
SOrry
of Wolff
ample
us,
she is glVlng
had
escalation.
boy
sees
But
an
his mother
The
between
lives with
is pllZZled by
his brother.
to
disturbed
(G, p.162)
ther.
only
lies that
the
only
B. HigglnS
She's
She
has
dis-
last the
no
boss
Fiction
Tucker
was
After
a
goes
without
to
Jean
the edge
She
bike.
parents
The
older
family.
from
one
of himself
bad
parents
held him
he won't
is in trouble
up
back
Donald
many
times
mits
be may
to
have
told
never
ently
morally
fend
himself
how
their mother
They
Donald
sleeps while
gone
and
that
Peru.
The
hitchhiker
him.
Pete
is furious.
cause
drives.
When
had
it's the end
how
he
is
and
to
cynlCal.
answer
off.
He
his wife
Donald.
the
when
how
realizes
ironic
gets
he
him
can't
:
out
beat
back
that
and
up
appar-
Donald
has
tries to
Pete
remembers
a
a
de-
him
had
no
car.
there.
such
Pete
He
is
in
mine
just
be if Donald,
has
and
hitchhiker
gold
Pete
of the
tired
gets
the
it would
leave
him
Pete
about
he himself
whereas
drive
they
it but finally ad-
Pete
ride.
story
to
goes
jealous.
of all the money
out
Donald
she asks
still
a
Donald,
Pete
In general
he discovers
hitchhiker's
lucky,
argue.
He's
up,
thinking
from
had
effective.
hitchhiker
Donald
soon
not
and
taking
of
as
for his behavior.
be's
his
to
fought
never
victim.
him
he wakes
got
They
Donald
the
has
he's ashamed
call
first Pete denies
Pete,
His
now
Pete
the
keeper.
his house.
how
and
At
but
offers
he starts
live at
girl
some-
Slngle,
his brother's
a
the
Since
and
of their interactions
complete
a
dead･
palnter,
and
up
tO
needs
woman.
is incapable
receives
and
childhood
over
believed
character,
drives
come
he forglVeS
swindled
Then
of his innocent
1ty because
know
and
being
Pete
consists
the
He
Donald
When
to
house
sometime
avoid
a
in California,
another.
of times.
fussed
had
a
can't
accusations,
Donald
Donald
is
killing him.
played
always
eat
businessman
tO
bin
couple
Donald's
had
to
are
their
air, telling Pete
from
stop
a
He
anyone.
superior
up.
as
back
On
and
themselves
identity
it
get
adolescent
role model
Brother"14)
about
so
good
This
had
could
hanglng
Rich
to
in "The
talks
done
in the pool
no
She
sleep.
herself
get
bring
of him.
of almost
to
feels better.
she
for baby-sitting
care
if his family
have
of the story
the point
cov-
the landlady
that
her
most
and
opened
the
to
back
goes
her
told
arm
she has
Pete
he invites
agaln,
pick Donald
home.
take
her
with
communlty
responsible
He
of the pool
once
Donald,
that
means
Jean
between
and
it but manages
successful
brother,
religious
which
tell his wife
who
around
a
television.
of formlng
children
forty,
His younger
bas皿OVed
care
is
brother,
him.
had
end
although
brothers
two
of the
parents
Tucker
out
in the process
the
of the
comforts
She rests
her little brother
113
Wolff
into his pajamas
tO retrieve
the bike
irresponsible,
are
Jean
pool.
trylng
pull
help her along
to
own
to
of Tobias
in front
him
in the deep
of the pool.
intends
tries to parent
one
herself
floor
and
house
bicycle
a
exhausts
over
and
have
Works
(β,p. 13)
up.
up
the apartment
said he could
out.
him
waking
The
to get
managed
TllCker wakes
while,
out
and
:
the
on
asleep
the Hide-a-Bed
ers
Truth
and
glVen
be-
possibiト
tells him
wouldn't
114
Betb
Where
The
is your
brothe一s
two
him
to
p.
I(B,
221)
free of their
get
his air of
a
if he refuses
childhood
brother
older
to
tie the
face
couldn't
be responsible
The
relationship.
his helplessness,
victim,
The
permanently.
face the world
innocence
older,
aggressive
his mother
for his younger
of
can't
and
brother.
He's
life-
a
baby-sitter.
time
In the
Episode
follow,1ng
in the Life
in himself
at
cannot
brother,
the younger
brother
brother?
B. HigglnS
a
as
a
there
and
family
Language
is rumored
15)
is punctured
He
lives in Seattle
in the
colleag･ue he dislikes,
a
affairs
Brooke,
he's
with
severe
by
a
smug
of
lS
He's
With
tO
reglOnal
a
He
Yeats
scholar
married
with
Brooke
Professor
a
meetlng
is golng
a
whose
professor
chance
drive
to
is "flashy"
who
four
pride
woman
meeting
has
children,
his wife
and
"An
academia･
of Bellingbam.
town
Riley
view
a
and
students.
Catholic.
a
a
is about
man
Association
to have
like Professor
takes
Brooke"
conference.
Riley,
with
Wolff
StOries･
of Professor
stable
professional
of the Modern
two
are
and
pleased
that:
after
…
Professor
is certain
discussion
panel
how
Brooke
they
years
sixteen
the
at
he is mistaken.
his
of
intellectual
he points
conference,
(G, p.28)
still in love.
were
In fact, Professor
and
to
out
Brooke
a
had
to
come
a
thelpanel
on
professor
young
only
During
judgments.
moral
the conference
so
that:
he might
.‥
Later
has
some
get
into
he andtRiley
bring
three
children
her
blocked
ciety, Ruth.
tle town
been
decorations,
to
Francュs
books:
a
with
nurse
X.
a
Dillon.
a
about
husband,
but
he meets
at
he
poetry
a
woman
thinks
incompetent
she's
She
their university.
at
a
makes
snide
from
evening
reading
with
Professor
Brooke
remark
about
When
in the hotel
her.
had
the Bellingham
unmarried,
Bartlett's.
That
from
volunteer
the local hospital,
quotations
he apologlZeS,
attend
argument
snack,
all her life. He
decorated
cides
a
(G, p.28)
the meeting.
had
and
for tenure.
getting
She is
an
sick
appolntment
he's
While
a
and
to
sanity
Many
recently
and
the
of
his
thumbed
so-
has lived in that lit-
sandwiches
he realizes
he meets
literary
she had
her by chance
students
through
had
which
done
and
like the
one
the
de-
poet,
of
his
Fiction
intrlgued
…
by
lated
into
pages
Brooke
blurb
a
The
Works
back
the
on
formed
the image
by
verses
no
of Tobias
that
including
Hindu
a
of
in
guru
light
other
Wolff
claiming
languages,
twenty-three
dreadful
same
Truth:
and
than
the
115
had
poet
(sic). As
darkened
a
that
been
he
transthe
turned
these
cell reading
of his
own
mystical
aura.
(G,p.35)
There
follows
deft description
a
The
and
to
left,
even
character
berjack
stand
though
arrived
(G,
description
The
a
poet
stllffy and
hour
an
two
late but not
(G,
bad.
smelled
pen
country･
They
"Isn't
of
one
per-
35)
p.
escorts
He
read.
the
tied at
was
wearlng
waist
with
a
a
lum-
length
were
natural
factories
by which
the
poems
would
realized
that
the poenlS
had
the ascent
steadily
inspired
Dillon.
a
without
he wonderful!"
word
Ruth
to
anyone
said,
as
Were
they
didn't
find
Brooke
until, durinto
up
the
as-
according
the coastal
to
redwoods
35-36)
pp.
reading
when
and
grouped
level with
The
had
be moving
since. (G,
ever
eluded
now
sea
at
people
place.
arranged
they
begun
climbing
were
that
uninhibited
the
over
that
remarked
Brooke
and
all
be saying
to
seemed
he
ends
was
stood
as
Dillon
:
through.
applauding
the
empty
(G, p.36)
podium.
a
They
trees.
and
the Northwest
room
to
pants
roads
had
been
left the
Of khaki
Trees
trees.
Then
they'd
began
apology
palr
about
from
Dillon
pause,
Presumably
tant
half
was
the
that
crowded
is hilarious.
were
prlnCiple
elevation.
Brooke
loose
a
to build
ing
have
was
so
and
35)
p.
lot to learn
-
The
without
of the poetry
it necessary
They
the air
and
All of the poems
and
overheated
in the back.
shirt and
of rope.
a
and
:
Dillon
The
large
was
had
them
son
room
:
of settlng
drink
in the
Ruth
to be honest
and
home.
takes
bar
When
off
run
and
they
her
wig
into
Riley
and
the
yollng
get inside, she tells him
revealing
she
has
no
she
professor
thinks
hair.
She
agaln.
it's imporhad
lost
it
116
B. HigglnS
Betb
she had
when
been
ill and
she feels comfortable
she had
ems
a
cites
her
she had
her to read
asks
lowlng
day,
night
before
to
burtlng
avoid
He
clothes.
He
kneel
would
(G,
him
Ruth
part,
Brooke
that
Mary
a
career
he has
fired because
…
would
to
and
herself,
by
‥‥
can
want
to
live
the night.
The
fol-
happened
be dishonest
had
smelled
Ruth.
re-
:
bad
the
his wife
with
in his
perfume
idea
His
of atone-
him.
all, he thought,
seen
He
kneel
before
and
to
avoids
one
an-
the
two
aw-
On
her
Professor
He
of his colleague
up
wraps
whose
judg-
heartlessness
own
and
for himself.
Martyrs",16)
which
another
professor.
features
him.
women.
his
admitting
by
tastes
him.
affected
felt accepted
judgment
convenient
had
that
caused
the
her literary
thought
sincerity
American
stories,
had
he has
is most
lent its title to the
At
the
start
of
that
she
:
Ever
and
p.
123)
p.
123)
since, she had
played
the words
of other,
often
say
chance
(G,
man
original
(G,
He
kind,
the pain
chosen
of his ideas.
not
him
submitting
Wolff's
she had
the arguments
his wife
must
po-
woman
spends
to
see
her
was
thought
of the North
of
brilliant
It
irrelevant.
"In the Garden
i.
he has
Riley
we
of Dillon's
she
whatever
from
is finished.
to remedy
case,
first collection
as
it, and
be receives
where
Riley
junk.
him,
nothing
the solution
church
Ruth
with
she liked
is, in any
s
at
and
While
thinks
a
make
tells him
that
the love poems
by symbolically
the matter
know
reading
listens and
enjoy
decides
exotic,
one
in the hospital.
could
who
Brooke
by
looks
she
42-43)
admired
does
to
thinks
was
said
Riley
doesn't
before
pp.
the episode
ful, the poetry
ment
He
also lgnOreS
otber.
For
her.
she
or
starts
secret.
that
it, be scarcely
with
is to sit in the front
ment
live when
poem,
home
will remain
tells him
tbougbt
ever
Dillon's
he drives
She
about
written
He
chemotherapy.
to
will
he bad
…nothing
(G, p.41)
again.
He
had
him.
with
regained
poem
had
something
scandalous.
it safe.
She
approved
Her
own
uses
:
writers,
thoughts
so
she kept
Fiction
She acts
by
at
being
always
teen
if she is
as
unaware
ready
until the
years
brary
has
college
lungs
books,
no
and
When
know
do.
to
what
Mary
written.
Louise
had
Since
°ept the paper.
ferent.
In
written
started
for each
viewed
tee
department
Louise.
Louise
her
love
She
had
hoped
Louise's
She
n't
know
said
turns
been
used
The
her
includes
high-strung
goes
who
own
the
her
invita-
an
of her
one
forgotdoesn't
an
article
she bad
to
but she decides
it's not
A
acI
dif-
all that
book
had
she
is
no
views
her
so
spontaneously
The
facts
she
but
kind
can
tells the
to
lecturlng
continue
of her getting
his personal
who
the motions
in her
the cliques;
retirement.
No
own
Mary
ln
peace.
the position.
an
is full of self-pity
to
women;
with
This
;
the
had
lndians
her. She
some
doesbad
priests
at
her,
She
knows
but
Mary
has
she
This
emboldens
scathing
look
her
at
aca-
the department
and
hypocrlSy
the
use
students
lroquois
of both
interview,
lover.
will not
many
the
about
her
absolutely
shouts
career.
confronts
is angry
what
the egotism
life during
of fairness
his
tries to stop
Louise
the
and
his
of
audience
others.
unread,
trouble
cruelty
commit-
in Oregon,
she
chairman
for the first time
elements:
the
inter-
climate
the professors,
on
department
possibility
professor,
decides
is full. Besides
are
husband
is having
Mary
llp.
boa又. The
Afterwards,
life. Her
she
a
they
discusslng
be
must
to be
the
about
132)
p.
woman
it's clear
personal
and
one
out
interests.
upset,
being
about
that
(G,
thought.
turns
be starts
her
about
historical
discusses
through
for
Mary
writing.
that
rule
talking
academic
area.
aid
a
clean
Then
room
lecturing
several
female
time
cheer
lecture
there
the
are
would
more
and
is bad
day.
her
she thinks
li-
the
tells her she had
offers
fif-
position
and
where
next
own
a
she gets
York
for
job
take
which
year,
sport
good
building
plagiarism,
her
interview
so
s
talking
off her hearlng
chairman,
which
Mary
the lroquois
to
and
dull, she
has
I
children
inhabit
any
to express
demia
her
How
The
York.
New
starts
begins
to
used
of
the
glVe
of
to
one
New
people,
oplnion
are
spends
Mary
paper.
come.
books
of
affair,
other
college
position.
and
is made
mention
who
faculty
Utah,
to
out-and-out
that…"
the
that
chairman
state
low
a
believed
late, Mary's
arrives
home
has
East
climate
in upstate
historian
quotes
She
In her third
expected
as
the
her
:
out
she learns
chance
far
as
plays
keeps
her friend, Louise,
successful
gone
she
"It is generally
By
a
consists
117
She
the
is the damp
she arrives,
lS
leaves
college
college
Mary
she always
case,
any
famous
is
never
She
aid malfunction.
a
lecture
the
bankrupt.
problem
Wolff
In tbis皿anner
joke.
silly
the main
but
old colleaglleS teaches.
mention
cliques.
it. The
at
to
The
:
She hates
tion to be interviewed
ten
of the department's
goes
her hearlng
makes
of Tobias
a
with
college in Oregon.
a
Works
Truth
and
timidity
the
successful,
Of the
of
the
colleg･e
main
118
Beth
character
who
lieves orlglnal
out
speaks
lower
ideas lead
only
is
park
and
ago.
They
thinks
two
had
to
remember
Jack
Bill and
by
to
plaglarize
Wolff
her
has
own
be-
writings,
a
get
position,
described
her.
says
all. He
after
Marty
Check
and
domain
a
of
This
flip tone
it had
been
how
thinks
a
with
Do
get
it into
building
their dogs
While
out
of the
men's
She's
guys.
a
"A
misused
that
in which
to
few
having
lighter.
begins
doesn't
talking
he
with
tells her it's
doesn't
tan
The
she
drinks
He
He
name.
the
weeks
in it because
decides
and
know
is from
man
almost
and
car
waiting
to
like
get
tries to
she
want
lies about
me."
She
who
killed by
This
strangers
lonely
by
in the
he is, and
The
driver
She
goes
someone
to
can't
understand
bar
woman
like
park,
is fearful
:
tan
Frisbee
a
now.
a
actlng
She
reckless
her
ln
her;
women.
party.
a
wants
is literally self-effacing
(B, p.87)
weeks.
offer
Suddenly
drinking
their affection
meet
a
althoughshe
enJOylng
for them.
Marty.
She
they
about
havs
to be with
steps.
alone,
his friends
jokes
could
She's
tO be
going
the beer
their
of them
the
three
(月,p. 88)
deter
on
for about
drinks
at
won't
sits
everyone
look
men
back
doesn't
the street.
her will remember.
lot of people
lallghs
that
the
kick
She
the four
and
tries
and
desperate
situation
had
sit in the
world
so
She
she's always
of her brother
Just
ma主 tais."
some
but
rlng,
her apartment
1ng
He
is Jack.
conversation.
friend
a
She knows
why.
his
attracted
a
After
and
asks
name
to Hawaii.
something.
Wedding
fort her but realizes
them
of
Marty
friend's
has.
cigarette
is Elizabeth.
name
tan
of their
she chases
She thinks
her
to go
wanted
feels humiliated.
to
front
bar
a
at
believe
she
her
stolen
her, and
him
tries to
after-
her, she goes
With
one
Sbe's
window.
met
the
cold Sunday
:
she could
by and
comes
he knows
tells her his
is typical
is wearlng
had
Marty
in
exercises
the volcanoes.
laced
She
the difficul-
and
one
marlJuana
bill and
the
slngle people
apartment
some
is Jack.
telling him
says
out
her
life for her than
She
he thinks
Taking
about
In late autumn,
reincarnation.
better
a
park
from
man
left her with
"Ⅰ've always
who
to
left to lose.
others.
tan.
about
she lies too,
Hawaii.
with
is willing
with
a
the other
be
must
in
very
talked
he had
back
is bored
all costs,
of five stories
group
men
who's
together,
them.
a
of
recognizes
there
seem
one
sees
of them
one
and
at
failure,
to
in their relations
Marty
noon,
man
job
she has nothing
when
17)
have
ties they
her
her
HigglnS
learnlng.
"Sister"
to
keep
to
wants
B.
com-
after huntfeels shut
one
of
plays
that
the
along
a
man
Fiction
She thinks
she
mustn't
show
ient embarrassment.
press
of drink
atmosphere
The
main
traveling
her
on
She
feelings.
genuine
have
worry
it didn't
…
to
says
careful
in Seattle.
He
his roommate
as
of Tobias
119
Wolff
need.
Death
is
to
body
but
or
vulnerability
attention
the
"Sister"
18)
in ''Passengers"
lonely.
he doesn't
cause
Works
just
inconven-
an
is unable
is full of flippant
to
ex-
in
speech
an
drugs.
based
and
The
"Leviathan'',
Like
character
luck
any
pays
and
salesman
Truth:
and
He
is relieved
about
is also
he realizes
when
getting
hasn't
He
is
hitchhiker
a
is older
she
Involved.
Glen
stunted.
Bonnie,
ride to
a
glVeS
emotionally
a
down
he is be-
than
because,
married
:
to
sense
make
take
freight
on
when
for
traveling
were
you
speed.
(G,p.81)
As
he often
big dog
a
hurt,
Glen
causes
hold
they
traffic
a
on
to
each
accident,
they
and
Both
other.
telling her he's engaged.
decide
are
killed.
almost
to
change
wrong
with
the
has
are
un-
They
live, but
they
way
She
how.
unsure
though
…
he lies to Bonnie,
strangers,
with
which
but
is
does
he wasn't
just
sure
was
what
his ways,
he meant
it.
(G,p.82)
They
drive
on
sients'hotel
there
but
knows
Martin,
about
and
stained
Bonnie,
believes
it. Martin
and
in the
ing in
has
but
a
new
a
gene
blood.
despicable
no
never
picking
socially
pool.
(G,
theory
You
pp.
about
had
and
Glen
car
her
dog
stray
business
considers
to keep
wet
cleaning
out
to
stay
to
help
her,
there.
Glen
the
His
dreads
car's
thinks
cats.
seat
room-
telling
cover
:
(G,
p.
74)
a:
the deadwood
77-78)
the Holocaust.日e
want
wants
her
the tran-
reach
is :
like feeding
He
Glen
leaves
had
they
she doesn't
is drivlng.
hitchhikers
irresponsible,
of the fittest.
him
tells
her,
because
up
When
them.
life-style.
accept
It is his
choice,
thinks
between
irregular
friend's
his boss.
has
bond
lives, Bonnie
would
survival
corporate
…
He
is also
dangerous
…
in her
his roommate
him
He
involved
get
is
there
her girl friend
where
and
mate,
agree
and
and
bring-
120
Beth
the Jewish
…
lived they
As
Glen
Martin
"Why
didn't
places
free.
have
could
one
Martin's
Martin's
fine by itself, but
for
things
calm
in the
ready
had
‥.
Glen
timacy
with
He
a
bin.
He
when
his boss
greeable
77)
Bonnie.
about
"Because
that
out
And
When
You
just
keeps
quiet.
As
free.
nothing's
your
put
have
to
to go-
she's used
it would
nobody.
it smelled
reason
and
a
in the
he
have
You
been
in
yourself
accept
her
some-
hap-
what
Glen
talks,
like rotten
eggs
obstacle
can
smell
when
Martin
had
left two
and
Glen
but
laundry
Glen
he
and
he
embarrassed
finds
even
marl]uana
He
drives
different.
Just
starts
ironlng
he's
as
big
a
:
someone
his smell
He
has had
car
nothing
but
is
else's power.
and
to finish.
no
it since
in his boss's
does
his
for Martin
about
of marrlage
to be in
a
87)
p.
success.
no
Martin
boss.
to
not
:
feels
room.
thinks
(G,
seems
He's
86)
p.
by his cutthroat
house
it's stupid
it will be
and
Bonnie
them.
waiting
thinks
even
try
sits in the dark
he
although
tells him
and
basement.
the
to
them,
noise.
He
lives in his boss's
personality
smokes
dominated
an
high
(G,
again.
worse
to
he decides
him
room.
He
down
and
he irons
as
heard
woman
burden
car
Martin
he's engaged.
is
power.
sneaks
and
sings
never
a
in your
some
over
room
is completely
strangers
wife
all
in the wood
stays
Anything.
and
will make
he hears
pile of shirts.
Glen
they
in the wood
leave,
p.
had
:
Glen
down,
like starting
to
(G,
if they
out;
(G, p.85)
on.
hides
tirades
which
bllt he hopes
He
find
tO
her.
to
dying
he asked.
golng
nothing,
is
putit
…
he hears
car?"
she's
-‥
by
85-86)
mar1]uana'clgaretteS
user
pool
when
own
herself
you're
after-shave
…
her
day
she put
to
rage
favor
a
the gene
a
anything
pp.
is used
After
Some
(G,
the lsraelis
weakened
she have
else's power
pens."
done
flies into
done
fault, because
Glen
have
would
expects,
1ng
had
people
B. HigglnS
long-term
in-
he often
tells
implying
words
when
his boss
unaware
The
voice repugn･ant,
of
berates
irony
the
boss has
but
a
a
disa-
he lives
Fiction
him.
with
After
it doesn't
up
in the dark,
"The
who
Poor
broken
a
twice
as
and,
His
much
he's
computer
right
but
englneer
He's
extremely
pany,
keeps
Dave
trylng
s
had
been
had
provoked
a
an
woman
Speedster
car.
Dave
afraid
in
an
by
his company
wants
Dave's
of
woman
runs
Groves
is waiting
Russell's
after
apartment.
a
out
The
the
on
Russell
Dave
of them
Russell
He's
for
for
a
an-
with
is
cera
also
Porsche.
a
com-
computer
in their conversation,
discuss
a
man
had
who
:
says
From
it all･
argument
young
join
tries to
nearly
Porsche
a
is Dave.
is too
in
makes
owns
radio.
also works
three
he
an
of
company
Russell
into
the end
at
computer
name
who
man
Already
away.
hear
Russell
had
lied about
the lofty
perspective
of y?ur
his age.
the
"I know
said.
He
Russell
had
been
into betting.
old
starting
67)
and
leaves.
bet.
Dave
ends
difference
between
right
and
(β,p. 67)
and
unfair
for
man's
Groves,
he'll bet his Speedster.
car,
of
He
just
older
teacher.
they
thinks
it all," Russell
though."
the
an
of
math
He
know
p.
older
a
other
point
you
(B,
seem
know
one
afraid
life.
own
man
young
works
The
time.
At
a
miles
singer
down.
every
I guess
then,
tells Russell
to
him
Calm
secrets.
tried to
car.
he's
that
of his
it fixed, he gets
getting
his friend,
years."
"I don't
papers
who
older.
)
twenty-two
Dave
his
irritably
"Well
wrong,
is
and
tO
sold his company
had
his father
much
touchy
reacts
Russell
thousand
bets
and
direction
his life, but
change
timid
so
advantage
and
a
he should
He's
is about
lives three
of
121
Wolff
he dislikes.
man
he takes
name
feeling
taking
of
is twenty-one
the
about
of Tobias
his boss.
Us"19)
at the mechanic's
customer
tain
a
how
as
money
he's
while
other
but
family
a
afraid
With
RllSSell
he has
on
from
acknowledge
career.
California.
and
Always
Works
out
hiding
Are
to
refuses
move
of his boss,
afraid
alone,
to
The
:
death
with
him
to
occur
women,
brush
a
Truth
and
station
flip
to
anger
him
a
and
for him.
for
goes
of the slnger's
arrives
ideas
it and
puts
He
up
wins
inside and
goes
that
out
Groves
he
had
for
can't
nevertheless,
been
doesn't
wagon.
Dave
dinner.
believe
it
knows
he is followed
car,
station
again.
he
but,
Russell
his
the registration
because
name
the
with
that
and
Russell
go
Russell
it back
glVe
tells Russell
along.
screams.
They
to
Dave
his good
coin
and
certain
He
wagon.
loses it, glVeS
decides
When
for
He
walks
When
the
glVen
deserve
by
the
the
Russell
off.
is
The
he returns
sterility
of
122
Betb
"What's
this number?"
B.
"You
HigglnS
‥‥
in trainlng
be
tO
a
or
monk
something?"
(β,p.75)
Russell
he
tells him
had
lived
only
there
a
time
short
it had
although
been
eight
months.
"No
pictures,
you
live here?"
sure
Groves
tells Russell
lieve. Groves
He
again.
back
Dave.
He
Groves
keeps
a
nearly
been
Dave
directly
He
slgnS
"No
on.
went
Vietnam
and
lack
You
nothing.
Russell
because
he is frightened
the
over
car
it had
Russell
happens
faces, and
shook
been
to
but
can
wonder
it to
glVe
in his
they
the
give
always
bet
He
now･
won't
would
fair
a
Dave,
see
he
in turn
who
explainlng
it's all gone
says
and
Groves
to
because
wagon
but
be-
doesn't
begins
and
creative
him.
on
out
Russell
which
of imagination
exceptionally
walked
Sometimes
oplnion･
never
speak･
year:
them
(B,
cency.
angry
made
seelng
April
Russell's
the station
Russell
out
by
had
disappears.
…
One
to
Dave
about
had
Groves
76)
p.
story
wife
his motivation.
about
For
Dave
that
Dave's
Speedster
sad
(B,
box,"
no
spunds,
is frustrated
says
says
also
a
no
as
agaln
and
and
of his
the proofs
again
things
at
glared
witbde-
own
79)
p.
Russell
evenlng
he rehearsed
his head,
sees
Dave
having
difficulty
great
trylng
tO
Cross
busy
a
road.
At
that
moment
his
car,
his
to
trying
him
have
he would
job, everything
help Dave,
he would
but
-
because
the
It didn't
point?
be helped.
couldn't
lose. It ]'ust wasn't
he
was
what
Dave
everything
Dave
glVen
in the cards
for him
had
Whatever
to
have
his money,
--
sense
make
Russell
gave
(B,
anything.
p.80)
Dave
gets
across
Russell
Camino.
Russell
and
felt
a
keeps
walking.
little lost,
and
For
a
:
moment
thought,
I'm
on
EI
CaTniTW.
He
was
on
EI
than
his
(β,p. 80)
is disoriented.
He's
far
from
bone
and
making
more
money
Fiction
father
has
ever
no
and
won't
His
lack
it back
Dave's
stand
for being
his former
has become
Dave
a
He
won't
run
York
he
own
doesn't
Dave
is
car
being
to
return
to
the
is
under-
of Russell
jealous
him
him.
which
seem
for having
too
is the symbol
which
of
justifieseverything
of this and
Besides
left
motivations,
He
the
and
had
devises
be-
fairly
car
old
and
is; he attacks
understanding
lose.
One
in good
Soon
into him.
"it wasn't
featuring
story
now.
of his boyhood
it's not
more.
any
-
to
is another
Davis
discovers
backs
woman
and
his
possession.
longer
no
the
won
screamed
unfair.
his prized
no
shows
lives in New
It reminds
He
was
he loses his wife
is fated
Goods"20)
Louisiana･
the bet
was
he had
Of
he
the
self-centered,
by
man
young
cynlC.
"Wordly
kind･
once
self･ Russell
himself
telling
about
In the process
soon.
purlty
He
self-righteous;
by the method
the
losing
also
had
wife
123
of his apartment.
out
He's
thinks
Dave's
of
he knows
he himself
what
too
much
feelings
He
wrong.
Wolff
home
a
make
demonstrated
sure
of Tobias
television.
a
though
be
to
Works
to
even
and
even
that
considering
not
is also
wants
The
nothing
right
of compassion
He
done
music,
what's
glVe
Speedster.
ironic
has
nO
pictures,
lieves he knows
car.
He
will.
Truth:
and
an
his
fault.
best
As
I should
buys
been
had
the
of drivlng
down
her
is from
old, flashy
an
had
he is drivlng
have
Davis
car.
friend
be tries to comfort
and
a
and
is thinking
and
accident.
She's upset
man
he impulsively
because
condition
he has
all your
day
a
it
lt until
the
by saylng
paylng
same
a
street
Closer
:
attention."
(G,p.103)
Her
cause
ample
is Clara.
name
he
beats
her.
of Wolff's
Davis
had
pact,
After
Sbe's
The
description
ability
to bring
few
seen
as
and
(G,
she
of the
She
was
yellow
hem
out
wearlng
scarf.
of her
She
from
ridge
(G,
Davis
car,
the
as
her seat
one
he had
mannerisms
who
emerged
the
had
bony
103)
better
look
sunglasses
and
a
gets
designer
wrists
on
the
her
and
also bony.
were
of paint
p.
and
is
a
beex-
good
to life.
character
tall
of her husballd
she's afraid
sense
from
the
a
of watching
com-
biologト
103)
blue dress,
like tools.
a
as
yellow
a
cally at
p.
says
who
of her appearance
women
she uncoiled
cal process.
gets
businesswoman
a
trunk
at
her
knees,
As she spoke
of the
her.
hair
fully
was
uslng
away
her
a
with
beneath
exposed
she chipped
compact,
covered
the
methodifingernails
124
Betb
When
Davis
to file
goes
a
claim
B. HigglnS
his insurance
with
he gets
company,
at the ad-
angry
juster.
"You've
He
the
accuses
nies it and
from
the
adjuster
of trying
to
a
and
to
wants
who
to
comfortable
Louisiana.
"I'm
doing
are
he asks
five months
day.
few
a
105)
pay.
The
days,
de-
adjuster
He
report.
another
Davis
a
gets
call
Davis
Important.
something
the
when
and
a
are
who
in the living
The
husband
is angry.
he said.
of virtue,"
us
with
help
you
us
you
the
explain-
want
really
dishes?
In the
once
offered
to
wash
good
enough
for
you,"
never
un-
of his from
"If you
with
he's
After
room.
re-
filed his
However,
friends
old
he waits
didn't
he basn't
be wishes.
as
he is
that
claim
him
and
why
here
a
made
adjuster tells
couple
this display
stayed
had
the report
visits
worthwhile
109)
p.
that Clara
adjuster write
with
you
p.
he writes
about
(G,
learns
their advice.
do something
to
very
the dishes
impressed
not
speak
smiles
the situation
They
everything,
He
he lets the
with
In
him
to
company
but
gentleman.
that
for the accident.
This time
Davis,
protect
adjuster, he
the
with
Clara's
(G,
….
:
his claim
withdraw
sponsible
to
around,"
words
make
Southern
genuine
decides
he meets
report.
he's trying
adjuster
…
1ng
my
is
feels guilty
When
twisted
insists
Davis
thinks
completely
the
dishes."
He
said.
"When
small,
too
body
you
Next,
acted
decides
the
for estimates.
neighborhood
chooses
than
One
of them
before.
repair
had
he trusts.
Oh,
to
hoped
to
bad
also
The
Clara.
might
had
cheat
mechanic
been
took
we
when
drives
be used
against
taken
the
the
insurance
interested
makes
to
her
him.
to
car
two
company.
in repalrlng
it look
and
to
(G,
sorry!"
He
take
you
run
p.
he
big
too
always
It doesn't
the hell. I'm
with
Davis
car.
were
the traffic.
And
what
this gesture
his friend
and
close
over
the
lS
they
apartment.
things
how
to
an
"Nothing
apartments
too
left early.
talk
money
the mechanic
it had
to
thinking
boy,
find
to
at
or
work
and
door.
the
looking
far from
bored
to
were
you
his mind
he receives
Davis
five months
Davis
changes
followed
or
any-
parties
112)
house
but
In the
end,
mechanics
Richie,
it. Davis
a
much
better
Fiction
When
tbe
car
In terms
bin
He
fuses to have
finds
Richie
side. The
len. One
night
is in
Outside,
his
be
Wolff
was
125
how
at
surprised
This
fortuitous.
with
do with
him
because
messlng
last
passes
own
heart
Are
Always
his wife's
beautiful
his
With
his
the
and
detonates
englne
Soon
the
He
drives
In-
is sto-
car
times
at
dreams
Davis
shocking
Sunday
several
of lost youth.
friend
re-
is sitting
by his apartment
his
Davis
One
friend
he worries.
sense
aS
singlng
him.
respect
invites
and
but
cooking,
Richie's
drive
portrays
and
good
car.
calls
adjuster
he doesn't
the thieves
scene
drinking
car
The
after it is repaired
even
he is sleeping,
car.
own
been
bin
but
hometown,
his
had
his friend
while
fast in his
very
to
lock is broken,
of Tobias
it up
pick
entice
tries to
and
Works
113)
p.
anything
The
:
to
the accident
car,
dinner.
down
went
(G,
was.
of the
to
he
Davis
Truth
and
be
full
speed.
out
of
his
sleep:
if his
as
…
In the
He
"Poor
foolishly
file
a
correct
from
he
decides
next,
friends
for advice;
discussing
car
1ng.
on
a
juster who
because
them
they
to
own
had
had
been
with
be
in two
single;
but
from
stolen
"The
him
to
sleep
his friend.
by misfiring
four
offered
invited
man,
to
and
him,
had
and
along
him
past
Person",21)
respects.
a
First,
priest.
parties
final
a
Second,
them.
taunting
the
repair-
for the adwith
never
doesn't
Clara
ques-
hesi-
of
living
with
and
left
early
when
is
of when
symbol
up
months
boredom
He
he
his
an
emotionally
he
was
of his youth,
him.
It ends
young
which
con-
and
has
his dream
too.
in this group,
professional
he's
in five
the
misfired
story
worth
but
invitation;
dreams
agaln,
and
has
dinner
with
night
bo喝ht
over
manners
to
he gives
he had
things
his
goes
then
wasn't
talking
his
He
it and
car
to
withdraw
he is full of disdain
but
shown
release.
agaln
the
it's
to
in the
outside
the
up
adjuster's
help
he feels his heart
Misslng
he's
the
to
that
of his good
advantage
his problems,
gives
goes
he gives
with
come
But
thought
of Davis's
first he wants
Clara;
fact
the
creativity.
symbol
wants
regrets
it with
egocentrism;
for him;
in refusing
his friends
never
had
own
will take
people
rudeness
burden
stricted
wild
solves
hers afraid
tions his
tate
his problems
discuss
a
At
and
he
despite
on
is
vacillating.
claim;
to
of Dave's
car
feels guilty
misleading
of his
the
and
he
he decides
is the symbol
Goods",
then
the accident,
unaware
and
a
116)
p.
car
is weak
All this goes
before
and,
is smug
file
the
"Worldly
Davis
that,
Clara.
Us",
In
accident;
to
after
it with
whim
He
of the
report
claim;
With
him.
(G,
misfired.
it away.
gambles
It's stolen
youth.
had
lucky.
requlrement
In
the
differs
that
other
from
the
other
the main
character
stories,
the
main
126
Beth
don't
characters
to
want
of
a
man
sionary
the
Father
Leo
He
had
had
disliked
cause
he had:
The
education
had
found
a
cohol,
At
the convent,
one
married
thinks
was
at
in the
trappers
in West
parish
him
to
and
a
mis-
lndians
Seattle
where
the
tasks.
After
the
minor
but
the parish
over
think
parish
known
a
monslgnOr
of:
elementary
had
Leo
(β,p. 21)
school.
else to do.
what
Father
what
Years
had
passed
and
he
:
said,
these
at
and
moments
he
felt
them
be-
(β,p. 21)
was.
been sent
out
a
teaching
new
confusing
at
the
be
to
wanted
21)
p.
the students
found
position
Vincent
lain had
It
he had
office had
him
Leo
he
Leo
had
hands
the
:
because
to
a
to take
Father
(B,
thought
asslgned
hoped
made
he badn't
the changes
Mother
Father
had
religion
to time,
found
…
had
teach
attention
…paid
glad to be where
time
Leo
and
because
sent
to
had
and
to
teaching
From
him
asked
on
had
Leo
they
of people
falls into
priest
life. Father
be
the kind
The
waste.
enjoy
been
becomlng
avoid
and
where
he had
been
accepted
enjoyed
to
the priesthood....
had
stay
…
how
Alaska
in, which
leaving
...
bin
died, Father
brought
or
of drifting
sense
of
had
become,
to
However,
priest
old priest had
been
a
wilds
him.
need
how
teaches
who
ln
old parish
had
is
be. There
con
would
know
B. HigglnS
and
about
but bad
materials
to keep
trying
stopped
it, and
be
needed
a
had
been
ignored
up.
fired.
(β,p. 21)
The
monslgnOr
convent.
Star
of the Sea
of the
new
chaplain.
Their
last chap-
(β,p. 22)
nuns.
:
for
a
job
a
breakdown.
several
an
old priest,
(B,
of the
p.
nuns
or
one
recoverlng
from
something
:
sickness,
al-
22)
Ignore
his advice
and
he is unhappy.
There
are
Fiction
two
types
Wolff
ones,
He
nuns
of
uses
a
Coming
upon
Leo
a
felt
these
Mother
This
the convent.
known
nothing
is. Watching
the situation
They
had
low.
Jerry
Jerry
What
was
Jerry
con
man
of the
con
did
was
the
time
describe
much
the
quiet
performer,
his complaints
to
Jerry
tells people
all kinds
money.
It
Father
was
for
grand,
Father
a
He
for
bad
serious
thinks
to
them
:
share
selfish, fllrtive,
was
(B,
cause.
good
Leo
how
at
Leo.
good
liar. Lying
a
of preposter-
is surprised
upset
for
money
raises
successful.
doesn't
and
reckless
lake. (B, p. 22)
a
help Jerry.
and
Father
grounds,
in
listening
is usually
not
the
on
cold pocket
convent
people
too
a
he
He
or
After
who
money.
of money,
plenty
it. Anyway,
a
finances
the
about
is
a
nuns.
that
proposes
donate
to
them
into
of the wild
Vincent
127
To
OneS.
qulet
in the corridor
like swimming
was
Wolff
of Tobias
the
and
nuns
sad, silent
fund-raiser
stories to get
ous
Works
:
simile
by the behavior
times,
several
memorable
chill. It
is dismayed
The
"rowdy''ones
the
--
Truth:
and
28)
p.
In fact:
he
…
having
was
He
that.
gate
liked getting
with
lunches
they
thinks
had
Father
had
finds
…job
should
No
was
look
nodding.
team
(B,
p.
far
more
at
No
to
him
afterwards,
Leo
Jerry
convent
and
to
came
have
through
looked
He
day.
be
the
forward
liked
one
to
of Jerry's
these
need
it his way
the
sto-
pleasures,
with
people
who
Jerry
called
"The
:
Leo
had
the
collar, which
29)
money
sit there.
in
than
ideal.
the situation
just
drivlng
and
"Slim,''and
(β,p. 29)
Father
and
car
Father
of watching
him
called
that
the coffee
it their way.
great
the blarney
collected
Leo
a
big
happen
in the navy.
having
they're
Persuader."
They
downtown‥‥
ate
to
used
were
Jerry's
wo111d
of all the pleasure
most
He
into
what
his days
ries about
Jerry
idea
no
of his life. Jerry
His
He
questionlng
a
murmurlng.
Jerry
had
been
able
to
say
anything･.
collect
by
himself.
:
didn't
Way,
have
to
all he had
to do
was
If
someone
close his eyes.
128
Beth
"We'll
One
day
1ng.
Suddenly
it in,''Jerry
rake
they
to
go
see
Father
a
"You
the vice-president
and
desk
Then
a
It contains
his face
They
bar
He
name.
had
he had
Father
Leo
stops
him.
Father
Leo
makes
up
man
Jerry
man
end
on
Leo
He
went
around
(B,
pp.
30-31)
the
golng
his first try.
and
confesses
1ng
tO
had
told
cover
one
story
about
become
a
a
rob
SO
Well
nuns.
She
Jerry
for them.
Leo
his guilt.
of the
for.
a
He
decides
he had
The
her.
name
cus-
when
between
them
so
school
he bad
killed
Jerry
thinks
that's
nun
is
it's
gets
a
better
big
even
an
successful
along
They
they
doesn't
so
goes
doesn't.
thinks
Leo
being
Leo
thinks
killer. Jerry
Father
for
Father
will refuse.
Father
hurt
some
priest.
tO L乱s Vegas.
is paid
had
and
be rewarded
trlp
Vincent
in high
that
saylng
his real
distance
some
he doesn't
for deceiving
of telling
be
to
that
confides
tO Prison
verge
seems
woman
Jerry
golng
the
on
himself
should
that he isn't
up
to
is
there
they
everything
are
a
He
to.
(β,p. 31)
little drunk.
a
it to avoid
that
had
Mother
and
know
31)
p.
gets
After
trying
a
wants
sure
things
he said.
there,"
all in twenties.
changed
been
thinks
and
he's
(B,
Leo
sold insurance
had
who
Father
why
"There,
don't
jerk.
to
the thumbs-up.
gave
``You
arm.
:
dollars,
Father
and
tomers
a
them
bag.
and
man.
of his
began
shoulders
Leo
the
glVeS
thousand
a
his true
use
stood
in the crook
:
to
go
His
behind
plastic garbage
seven
…
he's overbear-
thinks
(β,p. 30)
of yourself,"
at Father
the vice-president
...
Leo
:
looked
and
Father
:
says
over.
He buried
…bent
the half of it,''be said.
Jerry
of Boeing.
vice-president
Leo
(β,p. 29)
did.
they
said, and
to be ashamed
ought
B. Hig･glnS
are
go
fated
omen
when
tell Jerry
believe him.
more
gosslp,
the
Thanksgivlng
to
win
if Father
big
he hits the
trlltb about
He thinks
confllSed
but
the idea
with
on
the Boeing
with
when
Leo
he's
because
Weekbecause
jackpot
himself
just try-
Jerry
says
he
goes
back
to
Fiction
the convent
tells the truth
and
went
...
for
he meets
room,
Father
Leo
She
They
the
She
fuses
he had
says
her
not
want
to
his
been
a
The
He
a
glVeS
up
lice and
have
1ng,
he
the
hotel
When
goes
Father
Leo
goes
to
tO
his
he retllrnS
has
and
There
thought.
terrible
a
were
know
this
and
sunburn.
wrinkles
around
The
follow-
name
woman's
buy
to
he discovers
image
an
sits down
he
and
"Slim,"
waiting.
to
next
him
him
at
arrangement
had
not
her
to
want
(B, p.41)
another
hundred
of frustrated
did
he said.
the
Of the package
part
number.
He:
offers
room
room
in and
comes
she
his
on
remarks
shop,
Chicago
the
hands
forth
cup
dollars'worth
been
stolen.
animals:
a
sense.
They
He
of coffee.
sort
re-
of chips
The
descrlp-
of combination
there.
tore
and
didn't
any
make
himself
struck
it open
to
soft
and
the
over
his waist.
He
were
only
heart.
He
struck
himself
noises.
his
grlpped
agaln.
grew
distant,
then
stopped.
to get
involved
Father
Leo
(β,p, 42)
the theft because
to explain
he replies
He
room.
he made
reporting
pool.
said
he walked.
sounds
out
Leo
Father
paclng
The
He
was
gorilla,
and
stood
She is small
is Sandra.
name
forms
shirt in both
Back
coffee
in his
aS
things
kept
that
way,
When
smoking.
he'd
she
and
she kept
Up
glVen
lion and
own
disappears.
woman
than
older
But
name.
tion of his reaction
of
Jerry
the elevator.
floor
same
She
leaves.
and
In its
(β,p. 39)
she is from
says
himself.
room,
red-headed
On
in the hotel
counter.
…did
know
a
his age,
off at the
afternoon,
129
he:
lies about
crazy
Wolff
:
about
mouth.
get
1ng
that
was
her
sees
and
her again
sees
of Tobias
think
would
this in his
about
drink
a
Works
(β,p.37)
be is thinking
the bar
The
they
telling
around
just､as bad.
While
Truth:
and
looking
why
Sandra
that
he had
for Jerry.
comes
and
he doesn't
come
to
Las
want
Vegas.
Again
he has
starts
chatting.
he isn't married,
she
As he had
luck.
no
tells bin
She
Around
she
asks
him
isn't
the
with
done
in the
sunset
he
morn-
goes
to
his wife.
about
either.
po-
He
doesn't
130
Betb
to
want
talk
her interests
the
are
her back,
he refuses
Slim
priest･
is
a
"If you
scene
"…if
evenlng,
thing
had
past.
In the
in
ongolng
an
can't
Sandra
her.
calls. She
She
but
thinks
the place
He
everything_.
insists that
a
love
sons
dentist's
her
and
he'll stay
Time
them,
office
he tells her
she
a
one
at
Sandra
"It's
all right,"
named
listen･
She
You
would-
taken
priest.
after
lucky
up
As
L乱s
had
to
told
offers
refuses.
He's
Father
Leo
they
hang
and
stay
come
doesn't
he's
Leo
left.
as
He
room.
awful
lie he
soon
s
lost all his
Jerry
has
him
asks
into her
how
he
that
Father
but
money
and
The
qulet.
(B,
like
getting
is. She
Jerry
will have
up,
with
to
want
Vegas
She
go,
bin
asks
changed
"Ⅰ'm here."
friends
She
says
(β,p.54)
:
him
in
of hers
asks
he could.
decides
asks
silent
he
as
51)
some
sits by the door
He
p.
falling
sisters
married.
reflects, and
another.
He
the
he had
〉
Jerry
of
explains
Seattle.
to
the money,
priest
and
are
He
Jerry
some-
afraid
because
dollars,
together.
the
help
him.
back
go
downcast.
ended
for
police
He's
:
talks in her sleep.
‥‥
a
night
had
falls asleep.
passes.
someone
like l did･
in town.
hundred
with
how
visualizes
people
and
with
she won't
on
go
from
can't
Seattle
their eyes
sometimes
if he weren't
and
and
the
talk about
thinks
empty
past
walked
at
smiles
his help
(β,p.45)
call
had
to
they
room,
me
hospital
tried to break
lives. He
hallways
The
She
he
Jerry,
back
had
someone
let
four
He
if it's trlle he's
asks
a
it all back
go
says
(B, p.45)
ask
he gets
money.
Win
to
In her
he agrees.
about
tO
him
persuade
can't
exceptlng
he, not
he's golng
convinced
have
every
with
He
and,
Boeing
Vincent
but
She
wants
believe
doesn't
I'll scream."
again
checks
game
the
as
well
me
of the night
POker
interests.
:
Jerry.
to
middle
tell Mother
to
Leo
happened
as
money
Father
she
his nickname,
about
fool of myself."
a
says
near
When
She
priest.
his
about
her skin.
on
wouldn't
you
make
come
you
That
me
a
questions
:
says
and
Sandra
as
he's
explains
apriest,
let
ends
oil
tries to explain
were
n't have
The
and
He
her
answers
She rubs
same.
her things
up
gathers
he
her, but
with
ち. HigglnS
not
case
to
someone
bin
She
leave.
had皿et
who
if he
asks
He
could
the
rea-
tells her
tries to
get
in.
Fiction
has
Wolff
getting
control
wanted
to
be needed.
the
he
and
loses it. He
the bottom.
Actually,
him
glVe
drifting
and
they
and
chips
guide･
Every
When
the
are
brings
her
silent
convent?
On
limitations
1ng
he
he
Will
of
a
They
One
of his
it's time
language･
to let the
they
her･
over
to
continue
a
Wolff's
relation
rest.
doh
paradise
and
there
won't
gamble
He
him
her･
love
can
back
nights
to
for
is waitlng
redhead
to
She
all right
her
at
his
him･
room･
him;
needs
nights
his
for
in circles searching
summons
of Section
concerns
between
storyteller
thousand
seven
gamblers
of
When
the
he
empty･
for
the
a
close･
sleeplng
Vegas.
five short
follows
happen･
things
slipplng･
he go
the
make
relations
There
Will
people
Instead
l
to
he
of getting
learns･
Surrender
Mother
makes
art
Leo
to
sunk
who
merriment)
make
around
finds
this portion
stories
tO
immediately
he
talk;
runs
of
has
it is the
and
the
Father
the sunburned
she
the remainlng
the article will consider
tion
comes,
gamble,
the
he
base
home
of
incompetent
feels he
and
is
he likes it be-
him
judge
tone
he starts
he
because
discovers
to him
to
off
pro-
protagonist's
priesthood
up
master
target
and
avail
but
end
starts
whisked
severe
in Las
of those
depict
He's
no
watches
of space,
article.
boys.
call
he goes;
peace;
this note
To
he reaches
It's Thanksgivlng
woman?
is
he
arrogant
test.
a
of
happen,
an
pressure
good-bye
overall
a
In fact, his first position
dead
a
his tutelage
under
things
stolen･
time
his will
Against
and
of forclng
The
is
is
There
of the
the
his superiors
is opened
wdrld
the student
letting
for his final
abandoned.
new
joined
position
of Wolff's
wants,
stage
1ars, it's time
he's
position
becomes
simply
the
he reaches
his third
Person".
the possibility
had
his second
However,
whole
to
131
Wolff
Misslng
life of adventure･
a
about
example
he
what
for
interested.
a
He
introduction.
the
hoped
thinks
(certainly an
superior
to
He
of Tobias
of "The
Leo
life. Father
own
seem
students
Works
building
scene
upon
Initially, he's angry
dismal.
cause
of his
The
the plot
structured
layered
scene
of
gression
carefully
Truth:
and
a
study
draws
to
stories will be considered
writer･
friends
to
One
other
and
The
others
between
writers,
which
of his prlZeWinnlng
are
in
Due
ensu-
an
men
about
soldiers･
leads to
nOVella･
After
an
to
or
that,
examinaFor
now,
132
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B.
HigglnS
NOTES
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2)
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Press,
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text,
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Face,"
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