How I Learned to Drive - Part 1 Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of How I Learned to Drive.
Related Topics

How I Learned to Drive - Part 1 Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of How I Learned to Drive.
This section contains 357 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the How I Learned to Drive Study Guide

Part 1 Summary

The play begins with narration from Li'l Bit. She sets the scene in 1969 rural Maryland and introduces herself as a know-it-all seventeen year old sitting in the front seat of a classic car with a married man, her uncle Peck.

The staging of this play is minimal and suggestive. For example, in this scene two chairs function as the car, while the action takes place with the two actors playing Li'l Bit and Peck facing the audience and not actually touching each other.

Li'l Bit joins Peck in the front seat of the car. As they discuss the smell of Li'l Bit's shampoo, she tensely reads suggestive meanings into comments that Peck protests are completely innocent. Gradually, though, Peck steers the conversation towards Li'l Bit's breasts, and asks to feel them. She gives in to his pleas and he caresses her breasts, a...

(read more from the Part 1 Summary)

This section contains 357 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the How I Learned to Drive Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
How I Learned to Drive from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.