Pg 185( class discussion)

i believe that this scene is extremely important in the novel because it comes to show what Angela’s true intentions are. I dont think that she ever liked or had a crush on Swensen. She knew that she could manipulate him into thinking this, though. In this scene we learn that what Angela really wants is for the professor to show a couple of pages of her novel to Len and see if she could get her own work published. This scene is also important because Swensen starts to see what her intentions were and is most likely wishing that he disnt risk his life and marriage to be with a student who was just teying to get ahead & let him have sex with her to get ahead.