“A Small Adventure”
Book 1, chapter 16; Book 2, chapter 9
Characters
1.16 Married Woman (unnamed), Young black man (unnamed), man with red hair
2.9 A mother (dottie) her boy (unnamed) her ex-husband (Al) the woman he ran off with (estelle) the man daughter had an affair and his wife (unnamed)
General Subject/ Plot
1.16: married woman, apparently thrill seeking, has sex with two iffy guys.
2.9: a single mother, whose husband ran off with another woman, has a grim affair with another man’s husband.
Motifs
1.16 elevator, red hair, black guy, clothing (suit, skirt), dirtiness, binder (writing?), party
2.9 cigarettes, mother, alcohol, infidelity, towel, linoleum, unhappy
Notes
See “Another Small Adventure.”
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