You’re so clean that you’re dirty and you murmur your first word to me — hello — when most people would just pass by, but not you, in your loose pink jeans, a pink spun from Charlotte’s Web and where did you come from?
-- Narrator (Chapter 1 )

Importance: Joe uses an oxymoronic statement, that Beck is so clean that she is dirty to describe his new obsession. He compares her with the innocence of the child’s novel Charlotte’s Web. Joe decides at first glance that Beck is the woman for him.

You are sauntering over to the table, which means they have to stop talking about you and I am so happy when you finally arrive and hug your two-faced friends. They make golf claps and sing false praise and you guzzle your whiskey as if you can drink yourself into a Pulitzer Prize.
-- Narrator (Chapter 4)

Importance: Joe is upset with Beck’s friends...