It will be hailed not only for its breathtaking technique, but also for what it says so firmly and so well. "The Poorhouse Fair concerns the lives of a handful of marvelously eccentric and understandable people in a poorhouse on the undulating plains of central New Jersey.a polished, thoughtful, and unconventional book that deals with the dignity of men in an uncommon habitat. They decide together to sell it and end up spending the night in a motel.Updike, John The Poorhouse Fair with: Rabbit Redux Mim decides to facilitate the rapprochement between Rabbit and his wife, by deciding to seduce Charlie Stavros in order to disrupt the "couple",Īnd incidentally succeeds in pushing Janice to propose a date with Rabbit to settle material problems concerning the ravaged house. In his childhood home, with his mother suffering from Parkinson's disease, Rabbit struggles to find a balance, helped by his sister Mim who comes to spend a few days with her family. Rabbit, homeless and sent back a few days later for economic reasons (linotype is replaced by offset printing), must return to his parents. Nelson mad with pain and anger violently insults his father and threatens him physically. The firefighters extract the body of Jill who died in the flames and according to the first findings identify the indisputable criminal origin of the fire. Rabbit and Nelson rush home and find a huge fire consuming the house. One evening, when Rabbit and his son are invited to a party at the divorced mother of a classmate of Nelson's, a panicked phone call from Skeeter announces, without further details, that something serious is happening. Feeling that he could lose Jill at any moment if he fires Skeeter, he lets the young black man take up more and more space in the house,īoth with harsh and radical political speeches that organize community parties, and a obvious domination he exercises over Jill and her son, Jill increasingly under the influence of Skeeter who becomes both his dealer and his lover in a white neighborhood and observes outrageous practices and behaviors in American Puritan morality until then shocked by the "Summer of Love". Rabbit is both highly ambiguous and erotically fascinated by the character, while fearful of the damage he senses is coming. Politically engaged and preaching through an often mystical discourse the liberation of blacks and the advent of a "black Jesus".
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Skeeter, a Vietnam veteran who paradoxically seems to have taken full advantage of the violence of the fighting, quickly turns out to be provocative and unbalanced, Jill begs Rabbit to shelter Skeeter for a few days, who is wanted by the police for minor drug dealing. A balance sheet is established until the day when Skeeter,Ī young African-American, acquaintance and former dealer of Jill, invites himself to Rabbit. She gradually takes her place in the house, playing the role of housewife and big sister for Nelson who visibly falls in love with her. He accepts this exchange and gradually becomes attached to the young woman despite all the dark side she carries within her.
Homeless, and only has her body to offer Rabbit. Rabbit therefore finds himself alone with his 12-year-old son when the Americans set foot on the Moon on Jand are bogged down under the Nixon presidency in the Vietnam War, which he ardently supports.įollowing a meeting in a bar organized by a colleague, Rabbit comes to find Jill, a lost 18-year-old teenager who has broken up with her middle-class family in Connecticut and lives on the fringes of American society within the hippie community.
Rabbit's lack of feelings of jealousy, lack of competition, and tacit consent to this affair cause Janice's unexpected reaction to leave her family to move in with Stavros. He discovers that his wife, very absent from home in the evening for pseudo-professional reasons, is actually having an affair with Charlie Stavros, one of his work colleagues, of Greek origin and "liberal". Her life is dull, passionless and ruled by her work schedules and her Sunday visits to her elderly parents. For 10 years he had lived peacefully with his wife Janice and son Nelson, working as a Linotype compositor at a small print shop in Brewer3, Pennsylvania alongside his aging father.
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