Buddy

• "the type of person a girl should stay fine and clean for"
• Buddy's sexual encounter with a "slutty waitress" - presents him as a sexual deviant - highlights double standard
• "He always arranged our weekends so we'd never never regret wasting our time in any way" - paternalistic - acts in a fatherlike manner
• characters of John and Buddy are seen to be similar - both are doctors - connotes a sense of higher status/respect. characters are seen to be negative, patronising figures to female protagonist. Their role highlights the power imbalance witin society.
• "Buddy Willard went to Yale, but now I thought of it, what was wrong with him was that he was stupid"
• "to have an affair with that awful waitress on the Cape by the name of Gladys"
• "I did look down at Buddy Willard, and although everybody still thought I would marry him when he came out of the TB place, I knew I would never marry him if he were the last man on earth"(pg49)
• "Buddy Willard was a hypocrite"(pg49)
• "I thought he was the most wonderful boy I'd ever seen"(pg49)
• "now he wanted me to marry him and I hated his guts"(pg49)
• "My problem was that i took everything Buddy told me as the honest-to-God truth"(pg53)
• Buddy was always off on scholarship at prep school in the fall" p54
• "he[Buddy Willard] had fooled me all those years and what a hypocrite he was"
• "I thought the TB might be punishment for living the kind of double life Buddy lived"
• "he didn't have the honest guts to admit it straight off to everybody and face up to it as part of his character"
• "I never wanted to see buddy again as I didn't want to give my children a hypocrite for a father"
• "Buddy met my eyes and i saw, for the first time, how he had changed. Instead of the old, sure smile that flashed on easily and frequently as a photographer's bulb, his face was grave even tentative - the face of a man who does not often get what he wants" (p229)
• "There ought, I thought, to be ritual for being born twice - patched, retreated and approved for the road"(p233)