Post #6

Book: The Fourth Hand
Pages: 191-238

Not yet done with my second book, so I've got to do a lot more reading. I've been slacking.

But in the bit I did read, Patrick Wallingford has slept with Mary, a coworker, because she wants to get pregnant with HIS child. She turns out to have been promoted to be the news editor and has been manipulating him by telling him half-truths and omitting rather important details.

He then acts on his attraction for Angie, the makeup girl, and sleeps with her, upsetting Mary. (And he is not sorry at all.) I stopped reading at the point where he travels to Winconsin to visit Mrs. Clausen, the wife of the man whose hand he had for a year before his body rejected it.

I am definitely going to write about the way Irving depicts the attitudes on sex. Mary's reaction of Wallingford sleeping with Angie would be one of my prime example, as she seemed to think it meant more than it was supposed to.