Portobello Road

Portobello Road.

I. Introduction.

Let me tell some words about the information that I've read now.
The text I’m going to comment on is a story by Muriel Spark.
As for the style of the text it's thought (considered) to be given from fiction literature.
The information sums up many burning problems of different peoples` shortcomings and qualities of character and scorn of them.
П. Body.

As for the plot it's rather simple.

The action takes place in London. As for the main characters they are Needle, Kathleen, Skinny and George. Needle got her unusual nickname by reaching into a haystack on which she and her friends, George, Kathleen, and John, were playing and accidentally impaling the fleshy part of her thumb with a needle that lay hidden in the hay. After some minor first aid, George marks the occasion by taking a photograph, which serves throughout the story as a memento of the youthful friendship that these people shared—a friendship that survives through a lengthy period of change as they mature.

Needle describes an accidental meeting with George and Kathleen that occurs many years after the haystack episode, when Kathleen is nearing thirty-five years of age. Needle is passing through the Saturday crowds in the Portobello Road, an open-air market area of London, when she comes across her two old friends, who are now married to each other. Acting under an inner prompting, Needle speaks to George, who is horrified to see her. When he tells Kathleen that Needle is nearby, she insists that he is mistaken because, as she remarks at the end of the episode, Needle has been dead for five years.

Needle picks up that the four friends are preparing to take up adult lives in London and the south of England, far from their native territory on the Scottish border: John, nicknamed “Skinny,” goes to study archaeology; George and Kathleen, to take up connections with wealthy family members; and Needle, to undertake a career as a writer. George soon decides...