How would you describe the difference in personality between the twoboys, Enn and Vic? What details led you to that understanding?
What will be an ideal response?
- The differences between them are made clear in the story’s very first lines, with Vic expressing his eagerness to get to the party that he knows is going to turn out well for himself, and Enn feeling just as certain that he’ll have a miserable time but letting himself be dragged along in spite of it.
As soon as they arrive, Vic zeroes in on the prettiest girl there while Enn drifts off to the kitchen by himself. When one thinks of Vic, a number of words, some of them broadly synonymous, come readily to mind: easygoing, self-confident, cocky, brash. Even his name—Victor, presumably—reinforces the image. He can be all these things, Enn suggests, because he has an ingratiating personality and he knows it: “It was true: one urchin grin from Vic and he could have his pick of the room” (par. 13), and “He looked from her back to me, and he smiled his white smile: roguish, lovable, a little bit Artful Dodger, a little bit wide-boy Prince Charming” (par. 76).
Enn—short for Ennis, perhaps?—is his opposite: withdrawn, awkward, uncomfortable, and seemingly resigned to life as he finds it: “Stella was the most lovely of any of them, but she, of course, was Vic’s, and they were going upstairs together, and that was just how things would always be” (par. 85). He describes himself as feeling “unique and lonely” (par. 18) and unable to relate to girls his own age (par. 19); the few girls he’s kissed, without having any kind of real relationship with them, are friends of his younger sister.
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What will be an ideal response?