Striptease Chapter Summary & Analysis | Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Summary

Striptease opens in the Eager Beaver strip club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Paul Guber is enjoying his last night of pre-marital "freedom" with his buddies. It is his bachelor party. Paul is drunk and spraying the dancers with Korbel champagne. As the night nears its end, Paul drunkenly crawls on stage and put his arms around a stripper, Erin.

Someone yells at Paul, telling him to get off the stage. One of Paul's co-workers pulls out a camera and takes a picture. "Blackmail," he yells jokingly. Suddenly another patron of the club jumps on stage and smashes Paul over the head repeatedly with an empty champagne bottle. Paul clutched at Erin. The man with the bottle has silver hair and a black, crooked mustache. The bouncer arrives just as the bottle smashes Paul's head. He grabs the silver-haired man and is about to throw him off the stage violently when...
(read more)