"Then everybody's luck begins to run out. Lengel comes in from haggling with a truck full of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER behind he hides all day when the girls touch his eye" (Updike Pg 19)
This passage is important because it is when the story takes a marked turn and the primary change agent, Lengel, is introduced and confronts the three girls whom subsequently leave in earnest and causes the storyteller to abruptly quit on the spot. I think it is interesting because it quickly changes the entire plot and story line. The reader would be hard-presses to predict the final outcome of the story prior to the introduction of lengel. Another interesting aspect of this sentence is that it would seem that this is the straw that broke the camels back for the author, who is bored with the Small town he lives in and obviously already harbors some unhappiness with lengel, who finally pushes him over the edge when he confronts the three girls in the store.
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