"She kind of led them, the other two peeking around and making their shoulders round. She didn't look around, not this queen." (Updike 15)
The second sentence is what really jumps out at me as being important, especially when he calls her the queen. This is important to the story because one of the biggest driving forces in the narrator's decision to quit later is the embarrassed reaction that his manager gets out of the "queen" who previously seemed unstoppable. I thought the whole thing was interesting, albeit a bit detail heavy, but this really struck me because it was the first impression he had of this girl that was so striking and alluring to him.
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Hi, again, Seth. Yes, the word "queen" is important since Sammy seems to cast himself as the hero in this drama. Perhaps he is the knight fighting for queen? The distance between his vision and the reality creates a poignancy in his story. Nancy
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