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the eyes of our main character Frances. Returning home to Shady Hill from a
business trip, which is all he wants at this point. The engine of the plane begins
to have trouble. strange events begin to occur before frances. A man sitting next
to him, your everyday working guy, pulls out a flask. Of course,frances smiles at
him because at a time like this, who could refuse a little drink? Except, the man
refuses to give Frances a swig. The man is obviously a person who is thinking
abouthimself.The author foreshadows an absence of devotion to the home life.
Passengers on theplane are singing, meanwhile the plane continues to
descend.The lyrics refer to World War 2 songs.Frances is caught up because he
was in World War 2. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the man with the flask
refers to an old pilot's slang from war time "Buy the farm." Usually reffering to the
death of a Pilot(soldier) who's benefits from the Government would be used to
pay for a family's farm. At a time like this,when the plane you're in is crashing,
that is a phrase you dont wanna hear.
Finally, the plan lands in a field and, just like that, it was a
. . .
night. In the middle of this hectic time for Frances he must take family pictures, but
he sits upstairs writing like a little boy"I love Ann" on paper.
He has all these needs now because of his middle age realization which
probably came from his near death incident on the plane. His body surges with this new feeling, he even waits for Ann to get inside
and to her bedroom before driving away. When he gets home he finds out that she went home
early,probably because she didn't want to see him. I think thats all he really needed was to
release his thoughts and he couldn't in a town like shady hill lest he be
shunned.
She is an a bad mood so Frances gives her a shoulder to cry on. Frances enjoys his dream so much
that he becomes late for work. She's arguing over social
status because of a party they were not invited over the Writeson incident. The real problem is that
he feels like he almost died and would like to come home to a little intimacy,
instead of kids ruining the mood. Frances refers to the "Inviolable grandeur of her
nakedness", In a dark sort of sinful manner I believe frances has a sexual
awakening of sorts. I think he feels very wrong for
having these thoughts almost as if doing these things in his mind are real to him,
his mind reacts to what the community would say. Eventually we
come to another fight between Frances and Julia .
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