Sports, Games, and Sporting-Goods Trees
The sporting-goods trees work fabulously and comically as symbols, imagery, and allegory. That's right, Roth killed three birds with one stone with this one. As a symbol they work to convey the Pat...
Fruity Fridges
The first fridge we see is Aunt Gladys's. Neil tells us that "whichever [fruit] I preferred, there was always an abundance of the other jamming her refrigerator like stolen diamonds" (1.45). Gladys...
The Glasses and the Diaphragm
The glasses show up in the first line of Neil's story: The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. (1.1)This first line is telling us that Neil holds vision in his hands—this is...
The Heart
The first explicit mention of the heart that we found is when the boy comes into the library asking Neil to direct him to the art section. Neil thinks he says the "heart section" and we get the fee...