“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenberg’s, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
Above is the opening sentence from the novel. I'm not gonna lie, the discussion in class the other day has helped me understand it better. This sentence does a few things. The first thing is that it foreshadows what will happen. She feels like it is a "queer, sultry summer" that makes the reader think that it wasn't a normal summer or a clean summer. A lot of things were happening at the time. Then it says "they electrocuted the Rosenberg's," which shows that she feels distant from society. Like we discussed, when things happen in the US, people usually say "we" did this, like "we" won WWII. This clearly shows a feeling of separation from her with everyone else. The last sentence summarizes how she feels. She doesn't know why she's there and clearly is unhappy. This sentence greatly foreshadows what will later happen.
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