The Art of Fielding Chapter 14 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Pella heads to the athletic center to swim, but a giant half-naked lumberjack (Mike Schwartz) is sitting on the steps.
  • They introduce themselves, and he confesses to her that he's been rejected from law school.
  • She tells him that her dad's the school president, and Schwartz says it was his speech about Emerson that convinced him to go to college at Westish.
  • It was a speech about how Emerson dug up his dead wife's coffin to look at her decomposing body. (Um, that would make us want to run away, but okay.)
  • Pella clarifies that the dead wife had a name, and it was Ellen. Then they part ways.