Surfacing Chapter 21 Summary

  • The next morning, Joe and the narrator wake up late. Joe starts trying to get busy again, but she cuts that off quickly and gets up.
  • They get ready to leave. David discusses what will happen with his film, and then Anna suggests that they shoot the narrator (in the cinematic sense, that is). David realizes they don't have her on film yet—and that they haven't filmed anyone having sex—so he suggests that he and the narrator do that while Joe films. It appears that he's joking, and he and Joe soon go off to put away one of the canoes before the boat comes to pick them up.
  • While they're off doing that, the narrator starts taking David's film out and throwing it in the lake. She then hops in the remaining canoe and takes off without the rest of them, hiding until the boat has taken her "friends" away. She then comes and realizes she's alone.