It's the next day and the narrator is waking up, thinking about her feelings for Joe (as well as the past). The narrator suggests that the rest of the group go in to have a drink while she takes off somewhere else. Chapter 2 The group pulls up to a motel that, in addition to room vacancies, is advertising beer. The unnamed narrator returns to Quebec after years of absence to search for her missing father. Margaret Atwood's Surfacing Chapter Summary. Having not been there for a few years, she returns with her boyfriend, Joe, and her friends, Anna and David, who are married to each other. Joe is lying on the dock.
Summary They pull up to a motel with a small bar, and David, Anna, and Joe go inside to have a drink. Find summaries for every chapter, including a Surfacing Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book.
The narrator walks onto a dam that separates a river from the lake and recalls an incident in which she and her family canoed dangerously close to the rushing water of the dam. When she wakes back up, Joe is awake.
Surfacing is a novel by Margaret Atwood that was first published in 1972.
Written by fathima banu, prabhudev ambi and other people who wish to remain anonymous Surfacing follows the story of our unnamed narrator as she travels back to Quebec to search for her father. On the way to a village near her … She brings her boyfriend, Joe, and a married couple, Anna and David.
The narrator goes to the lake to rinse out a dirty pail. She rolls over and goes back to sleep. Chapter Summary for Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, part 1 chapter 1 summary. It turns out she's going to visit Paul, who was-is a friend of her family. Back in the cabin alone, the narrator again looks through her father's mad drawings, hoping to find a will or other document. Find a summary of this and each chapter of Surfacing! But then she finds a letter from a researcher at a university thanking her …
Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis. An unnamed narrator is driving through a "city" (although she immediately undermines its claims to being one). They talk about the fact that he talked in his sleep the night before.