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How far do you agree that Frayn’s ‘Spies’ is just a summation of the experience of childhood
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How far do you agree that Frayn's 'Spies' is just a summation of the experience of childhood In the novel Spies an old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking, but as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn't seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. Spies is set in WWII Britain as remembered many years later by Stephen Wheatley, a participant in the events. Stephen Wheatley was a "geeky" child whose only real friend in his small village is Keith Hayward. Keith is very much the dominant figure in the friendship, and Stephen idolizes him and his family. To him, the Haywards are everything his pedestrian family is not. Keith and his family are in a social class above Stephen and he is always painfully aware of how lucky...
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