Summary

In “Dancing in the Moonlight,” the narrator, Nick, met Britt Wendt at a market. She was selling refurbished antique furniture. He told her he had an ottoman he wanted to be recovered to get her card. He describes her face as looking like she had “just smelled someone farting” (219). He claimed that look made him want to be a better man. The next day, Nick told his friend, Mark, he was in love. Mark criticized him because he had gone to Yale, but had fallen in love with a woman selling furniture.

Nick lived in a windowless room in what he described as a “flophouse owned by a Hasidic slumlord” (224). He had been looking for another place to live, but nothing he had found was good enough. He also spent too much money on clothes. He had to...