Summary Of Triamalchio In Chapter 27

As we enter the baths we get a very colored description of Trimalchio that is the start of establishing him as a very flamboyant full of himself character. In 27 we learn that the narrator and his friends are heading into the baths and are distracted by a “bald old man in a red tunic playing ball with some long haired boys”. The narrator goes on to say that “ It was not the boys that grabbed our attention, though they deserved it, but the old man. Who was in slippers playing with a green ball”. In class, we discussed the fact that usually when you went to the baths and were exercising you would not wear brightly colored tunics. So, it was strange that Trimalchio was and that is probably one of the reasons the narrator and his friend's attention