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Part I (Pages 1 - 54)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Highsmith, Patricia. Deep Water. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2003.

• This book was written from the third person perspective and in the past tense.

• In Chapter 1, Victor Van Allen was a man in his mid-thirties living in the New England community of Little Wesley with his wife Melinda and daughter Trixie.

• Victor, known as "Vic," was at a neighbor's party watching his wife Melinda dance with another man.

• The man was Joel Nash, a traveling businessperson who was in town for a few weeks.

• Melinda had a long history of having affairs right under Vic's nose and out in the open of their community, perpetually embarrassing Vic - though Vic chose not to confront Melinda about her affairs, and he suffered in silence, even acting politely to the men she had...

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