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Alexander Kaplan 26-AUG-2004 Commentary on Passage from Shirley Ann Grau's "The Keepers of the House" This passage is a quintessential example of a modern writer's take on social impasses, and portrays a character's marked dissatisfaction with the human condition. The prose is complexly and subtly woven to convey a mood of languid boredom, a character's sentiments-jaded by the idle luxury of the 'Southern aristocracy' in the United States, the lack of care for the well-being of others. A brief colloquy between the narrator (Abigail), Mrs. Holloway, and a certain Mrs. Locke, is characterized by terseness on the part of Abigail, and obvious discomfort. Through use of brief narrative, tone, diction, and imagery, Grau successfully describes, in her own unique way, the cliché scene of Southern discomfort. The reader, upon scanning the first line of the passage, immediately detects a sense of dread, marked by a syntactically broken sentence: "I knew what the tea would...

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