We are not exactly told why Sandy moved to Florida.
However, if you read between the lines of the story, it seems pretty clear that she
moves because she is pregnant.
You can see this because of
what is said in Chapter 12. There, Darry says "When Sandy went to Florida ... it wasn't
Soda..." We don't know what "it" is, but I assume that "it" refers to who the baby's
father was. That's why Soda was so devastated.
We can also
infer that she was pregnant because Soda offerred to marry her before she
left.
Remember that in these days (the book is from 1967)
it was really quite shameful to get pregnant without being married. So it's realistic
to think that someone would move if she got pregnant. And it's realistic to think that
the guy would offer to marry her if he thought it was his.
No comments:
Post a Comment