Summary

In the second section of A Single Man, Isherwood provides his readers with a glimpse at George's day as he drives from home to College, to deliver a lecture. Told from the perspective of a third person omniscient narrator, who occasionally veers into free indirect discourse — speech which, in brief, can be read as occurring either from the narrator or from the characters which he narrates — "Twenty minutes later, Mrs. Strunk, out on her porch watering the hibiscus bushes, watches him back his car out across the bridge" is divided into three movements: pages 32-38 concern George's thoughts as he drives to campus; pages 41- 54 involve George's arrival at College and his meeting with a student; and pages 55-75 narrate George's...