"Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're uh—they're drinking. Sitting around," he saidvaguely, squinting as if he were staring all the way to town and over to Aunt Tillie's backyard. Then the vision seemed to get clear and he nodded energetically.
The stutter gave it away that he's attempting to fabricate a lie. Or that he really had seen them before. It's vaguely put. Either way, it's extremely alarming.
June did this, June did that, she savedmoney and helped clean the house and cookedand Connie couldn't do a thing, her mindwas all filled with trashy daydreams.
Her mother, to add salt to the wound, would praise her sister, June. Whatever June is Connie isn’t. A distraught favoritism at play.
She stood
In two words, it shows the eventual submission, a quiet sacrifice. Extremely powerful.
He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around hiseyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chipsof broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way.
The sharp contrast between his skin suggests he had been chronically predatory.
"Oh, her. That dope."
It's interesting to see how she downplays her friendship with Pettinger, an attempt to have it fly under her mother's radar, preserving her social life.
so much land that Connie had never seen before anddid not recognize except to know that she was going to it.
An uncertain fate awaits Connie as she is taken away. Whether she really recognize the place or not, the landscape here represents uncertainty, vast and unknown.
DONEBY CRAZY WOMAN DRIVE
We done really know who made the bump but the language, I think, suggests a deeply rooted Misogyny.