"What are you drinking?" I asked Bill and Robert. "Sherry," Cohn said. (pg. 157)
What else would they drink? Water? That is too funny to picture. I do not think i've read anything so far that did not have the characters wanting a drink. And i mean the hard drinks. The motif to eat and drink and eat and drink seems to show the alcoholism of this time period. Or at least there should be a lot of alcoholism with the amount of alcohol these people consume.I have also observed that when one is flustered or nervous the offer of a drink seems to calm them down. It is a very weird offer but I think it is very normal in this society of people.
are there differences between the drinking and non-drinking scenes (are there any non-drinking scenes?!)
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