BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


Janus Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Ann Beattie
About 35 pages (10,491 words)
Janus (Beattie) Summary

Bookmark and Share

Summary

Set in the 1980s, "Janus" tells the story of a successful real estate agent named Andrea. Every real estate agent, the narrator says, has a trick for making houses seem special to buyers, and Andrea is no exception. Sometimes, she brings her dog to play in the kitchen of a house she's showing, so the place will feel more like a home. Always, she brings her ceramic bowl and places it somewhere in the house where a prospective buyer will see it.

Like Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, the bowl has two faces. It is not attractive, yet is has presence. It seems at first to be glazed in a plain cream color, but when seen from different angles, the bowl shows bits of geometric color and bits of silver. Buyers are drawn.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 1,463 words. This study guide contains 10,491 words (approx. 35 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our Janus Access Pass.

 
Copyrights
Janus from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy