The Lifeguard

John Updike

BACKGROUND

This story really has no plot. It is just about some guy thinking about the mysteries of life and crap like that.

MAIN CHARACTERS

The Lifeguard: He spends the whole story sitting on his lifeguard chair thinking about stuff while looking at the people on the beach.

PLOT

This lifeguard is in his high white chair on the beach. He spent the last 9 months studying religion in school. Then he starts thinking about religion and the beach. He is sad because it is Sunday and people are on the beach and not in church. Then he looks at the different kinds of people and makes fun of them. The old people never sleep. The middle age women gossip. Then he talks more about religion. He says that these people on the beach will never reach salvation because of all the idiotic things they do and talk about. He is kinda disgusted at the people on the beach.

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