The Hotel New Hampshire 1-130

       In the first section of The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving the union of Win Berry and Mary Bates. The speaker and the son of these two characters, John Berry, takes us into one of the rooms of the Bates family home. He brings us into the room where Frank, Frannie, (John), Lily and Egg(respectfully in order of age), a room where their father tells a story he has told many times before, adding every time new details that contradict old ones.he tells the story of when win and Mary fell for each other.
   When they fully met they were at their summer jobs where they thought nobody they new would be, where they wanted to create a new image for themselves. They were at the hotel Arbuthnot-by-the-sea, a hotel in Maine. There they became fairly closer and even closer when Freud and State O' Maine came by the hotel. Freud is a trainer and handy man, and State O' Maine is his trainee and a bear. This was a special bear. He could be controlled with just one object, his 1937 Indian(his motorcycle). He did not go anywhere with out it and it did not go anywhere without him lest someone wanted to be mauled by the bear. The bear even slept in the Indian. After an incident with the bike, the State O' Maine and an older German man, Freud fled from the hotel. Though before he left he gave Win and Mary three pieces of advice.
Quote: ""Here's number one: you(Win and Mary) get married....here's number two, you(Win) go to Harvard... we're up to number three....(Mary) forgive him, even though it will cost you."
Reaction: this is one of my favorite quotes in this book. even though they barely know Freud they listen to him. they get married, Win goes to Harvard and Mary will forgive Win, but the question is when?