What part of the story seems to be the exposition? Of what value to thestory is the carefully detailed portrait of Queenie, the leader of the three girls?
What will be an ideal response?
- The exposition takes up most of the story’s first half, through paragraph 10. The exposition’s carefully detailed portrait of Queenie is essential to the story and to Sammy’s final decision to defy his boss. She moves gracefully with a commanding presence. Sammy notices every part of her body and praises it with great detail. Sammy is perhaps most intrigued by the fact that she isn’t wearing her bathing suit’s shoulder straps. Stokesie, Sammy’s married co-worker, almost faints. If she were not such an enthralling Queen, how would she effect such a response in a stranger with whom she barely speaks? While Sammy’s language is sometimes pedestrian—“Really, I thought that was so cute” (par. 11)—he is capable of fresh and accurate insights, as when he describes the way Queenie walks on her bare feet, his comparison of the “clean bare plane” of her upper chest to “a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light” (par. 3).
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