The Wedding p.60-120

Summary

Shelby starts to get a lot of drama from her family about marrying Meade. Her sister Liz disapproves of her marrying Meade becuase she thinks shelby is in denial from being more attracted to black men. Her mother also disapproves of Meade becuase he is poor and his family in not well known in their society. As ayoung family Sheby had always thought that she had a perfect family until her sister told her the reality of their family. the reality was that their dad was cheating on their mom with a black woman who worked in his doctor's office as a secretary. The weird part is that their mom is affair of the affiar that the dad is having with the secretary from his job in the hospital. Shelby' father arrived in Cape Co for shelby's summer wedding and ends up reflecting on his life so far. He almost didn't marry Shelby's mom becuase when they met in college he was in love with another girl named Sabina and she was black. Because shelby's mom's father was the president of the college her father felt like he was obligated to marry her mother. Mostly due to the fact the if he wanted to stay in that college and become a doctor that was the sacrifice he was going to have to make. Ever since Shelby's parents had her and her sister they began to drift apart becuase they were in love.

Quotation

" The ferry landing was behind him, and he could just make out a boat in the distance, coming with a fresh brace of day trippers from Cape Cod"(West 102).

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the description of the scenary sounds really pretty. Especially since i have been to Cape Cod i can see what the speaker was seeing while standing on the beach. I think that the boat in the distance can foreshadow the following issues that are going to follow what is going on. The quote itself speaks to me becuase it sybolizes what her father is leaving behind by kind of abandoning her family even though not in a physical sense.