Surfacing Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 4 Summary

The group arrives at the island, and their boat driver leaves. The narrator directs the others to the cabin. She finds it padlocked, just as Paul told her. Using the key he gave her, she lets them in. After surveying the cabin, she deduces that everything looks to be in its place, but it did not look as if anyone had lived there for some time. The group sits down and drinks a beer until she begins to prepare dinner. She goes down to the garden to gather vegetables and notices that it had not been tended in quite some time. It is beginning to get dark when they finish the dinner dishes. She suggests that they read or play a game to pass the time before bed, but David digs out his stash of pot, and they go to out to the lake and smoke it. While outside, David...
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