In John Updike’s 1956 short story “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” a young couple invites a friend over to their new apartment: NewYorkerArchive
He offered the dish—a silver porringer given to the Maples as a wedding present and until yesterday, for lack of space, never unpacked—to his wife, who took a greedy handful. She looked so pale that he asked, “How do you feel?,” not so much forgetting the presence of their guest as parading his concern—quite genuine, at that—before her.Though the Maples told some stories—how they had lived in a log cabin in a Y.M.C.A.
After a stretch of silence, Joan said, “I don’t know.” Her voice, unused for ten minutes, cracked on the last syllable. She cleared her throat, scraping Richard’s heart.Beyond and beneath the windows, there arose a clatter. Joan reached the windows first, Richard next, and lastly Rebecca, standing on tiptoe, elongating her neck. Six mounted police, standing in their stirrups, were galloping two abreast down Thirteenth Street.
Joan giggled expectantly. “No, honestly, you never did.” She hooked her arm over the back of the chair and wound her hand through the slats, like a child assuring herself that her bedtime has been postponed. “What did he do? He imitated headwaiters?” “No, he just sat down and played something else. I couldn’t tell what it was. He didn’t play very well.”“And then at the next place we went to, we had to wait at the bar for a table, and I looked around and he was walking among the tables asking people if everything was all right.”“Yes, later he played the piano there, too. We were sort of the main attraction. Around midnight, he thought we ought to go out to Brooklyn to his sister’s house. Here I was, exhausted.
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