Marry Me
“Geoffrey, a toddler of two, has just been baptized; there is a slick place in his hair. Ruth is squatting, in a white coat, on the dead lawn in front of their house, between Charlie and Geoffrey, both of whom, with their slack expressions and winter pallor, look chunky and uncomfortable in matching grey shorts, bow ties, and blue blazers. Joanna, seven years old at the time, stands behind her mother, wearing in the year’s young sunlight an apprehensive squint and a green beret. Ruth’s upward sm...ile is rather mischievous; light shines baldly on her knees, and her hat is crooked. She had borrowed the hat from Linda Collins. Beneath the game try at a cheerful expression, she looks tired and drawn. The Conants had returned from a party at the Mathiases’ at two o’clock that same morning. Above her head, beside Joanna’s shoulder, like a blurred yellow moth, or an impending star, is the year’s first crocus. It had opened early in the warmth reflected from the white clapboards of the house, and Jerry had posed the picture to include it.He himself is present only as a purple shadow in the lower left corner of the snapshot.MoreLess
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