ATDTDA (9): Married and married, 267

[bekah]

The "unexpectedly articulate ass"  business may be another pull at 
the idea of Lake being a virgin.

Bekah

At 9:55 AM +0100 5/30/07, Paul Nightingale wrote:
>She has her back to him, "feeling no need to turn to exchange a look". The
>scene fades as, presumably, they are about to have sex: if "that thing" =
>penis (?) she is the initiator here.
>
>The first paragraph concludes with: ". communicating by way of her
>unexpectedly articulate ass". Why "unexpectedly"? There then follows a brief
>dialogue passage marked by the juxtaposition of "married" to "respectably
>married". Deuce has in mind the situation they are in, at this moment in
>time. Earlier, he "respect[ed] her wish that they not fuck until after the
>wedding" (263). What Lake has in mind, possibly, is the opprobrium their
>relationship has attracted, raising the possibility that (she thinks) they
>will never be accepted. Any discussion that might have taken place here is
>cut short, by Lake the "virgin bride". There is no ambiguity surrounding
>Deuce's sexual cv; so does "unexpectedly articulate ass" refer to what he
>had expected Lake to be like?