et she seems to be indifferent to this one-sided "courtship": "On the tennis court she was strangely indifferent to his heroics...When he arrived back at the house she asked him who won, but didn't seem to hear his answer" (Updike 49). Even though throughout the story Sandra seems to reciprocate some type of mutual feeling, the reader never really knows for sure whether Sandra feels the same way about Homer that Homer does for Sandra. But then, just as Homer thinks the pursuit is in vain, an epiphany transgresses:
             The night before they were to leave they were all sitting in the living room after dinner - Mrs. Thyme sewing, Fred folded up with the morning paper, Homer reading on the other end of the couch where Sandra was lying - when the dog leapt up and things shifted in such a way that Sandra's bare foot was lightly touching Homer's back. Mrs. Thyme came over with a roll of newspaper, hit the do
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