ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Updike, Irony

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Breid Mc Ilkenny

Document Summary

Born in pennsylvania to a teacher (father) and a writer (mother) Wanted the reader to engage with the work & the characters. First published in the new yorker, in 1961. Skaz: comes from the russian skazat", or to tell. Are the three girls representative of botticelli"s the birth of venus . Similarities between the descriptions of the girls (especially queenie) in the story, and the painting. The three girls = the three fates that will change sammy"s life. Sammy is very disparaging about the older generation. The old witch" at his checkout, the sheep" with their carts. Sammy seem to resent the girls, especially queenie. He makes all sorts of assumptions about her life, just based on how her voice sounds. Knows what martinis" look like, but not what they"re called. Holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them. Pays a lot of attention to the way that queenie walks.