The Art of Fielding Chapter 7 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Guert Affenlight is meeting with the chair of trustees to try to formulate a budget plan for making Westish a greener campus.
  • The board is resistant. Guert worries that, if they dawdle too long, it'll be too late. He's not talking about the environment either; he's talking about "impressing someone [he] thought [he] might love" (7.15).