Thesis For The Skating Party
The Breaking of Ice at the Skating Party
The night of the skating party hold events that is romantic, symbolic and tragic.
Two versions of the story told by two people present at the skating party share insight into the versions they believe to be true, except one story teller has a few secrets that has laid guilt on his mind for over thirty years. Merna Summers' The Skating Party holds a lesson in love and life; Nathan and Winnie Singleton's stories are different, Winnie believes Nathan tragically lost his wife to be' in a skating accident, when in reality Nathan loses a love, no one else but him knows of. Nathan's thoughts on the mood of the night, and his indirect statement referring to his tragic episode will reveal why the narrator …show more content…
Winnie and everyone else share the feeling of, how ironic and sad; we all know Nathan wanted to save his love Eunice. "It troubled me that he had [not] had some way of knowing . I would have expected love to be able to call out to love" (Summers pg.191)
In Winnie's eyes, Nathan saves the wrong girl and regrets his poor judgment for the rest of his life that by him making that mistake, there is the irony; he loses his love by grabbing the wrong hands from the freezing lake. Uncle Nathan shows indirectly and directly that he is in love with Delia not Eunice; "I [Nathan] suppose I liked Eunice at first because she looked so much like Delia" (Summers pg. 196)
Nathan was also telling the story of stone man hill to his niece, stone man hill was the symbol of his confusion between Eunice and Delia. "I wanted both I thought when pa told me to get those rocks picked, that that was what I had to do. I think now I should have spoken up. I know for years I felt guilty whenever I remembered that I had done just what was expected of me." (Summers
The night of the skating party hold events that is romantic, symbolic and tragic.
Two versions of the story told by two people present at the skating party share insight into the versions they believe to be true, except one story teller has a few secrets that has laid guilt on his mind for over thirty years. Merna Summers' The Skating Party holds a lesson in love and life; Nathan and Winnie Singleton's stories are different, Winnie believes Nathan tragically lost his wife to be' in a skating accident, when in reality Nathan loses a love, no one else but him knows of. Nathan's thoughts on the mood of the night, and his indirect statement referring to his tragic episode will reveal why the narrator …show more content…
Winnie and everyone else share the feeling of, how ironic and sad; we all know Nathan wanted to save his love Eunice. "It troubled me that he had [not] had some way of knowing . I would have expected love to be able to call out to love" (Summers pg.191)
In Winnie's eyes, Nathan saves the wrong girl and regrets his poor judgment for the rest of his life that by him making that mistake, there is the irony; he loses his love by grabbing the wrong hands from the freezing lake. Uncle Nathan shows indirectly and directly that he is in love with Delia not Eunice; "I [Nathan] suppose I liked Eunice at first because she looked so much like Delia" (Summers pg. 196)
Nathan was also telling the story of stone man hill to his niece, stone man hill was the symbol of his confusion between Eunice and Delia. "I wanted both I thought when pa told me to get those rocks picked, that that was what I had to do. I think now I should have spoken up. I know for years I felt guilty whenever I remembered that I had done just what was expected of me." (Summers