Ace In The Hole Analysis

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Last Updated on May 6, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 243
Updike is particularly proficient in choosing words and gestures to emphasize the outstanding qualities of his characters. In depicting the immaturity of Ace Anderson, the author uses words that are associated with the teenage milieu of about 1950. Ace feels crowded by Evey and his mother. He feels threatened by the teenager in the next lane and calls him a miserable wop. When he tries to turn on the charm, Evey becomes “Baby.” In his view, it is not his fault that he was fired. In the lingo of the jock, Ace calls attention to the terrific hands of Bonnie, claiming that she is a natural.
Ace resembles a teenager, too, in his gestures. He flicks on the radio and beats time to the popular song. He sucks on a cigarette and snaps the match out the window, scoring two points in the perennial basketball game in his mind. He runs from his mother’s house to his own with Bonnie in his arms. Ace makes a ritual out of combing his hair. He whips it back and flips it out of his eyes. He seizes Evey and spins her into a dance routine in the concluding scene. He is continually in motion, as if his physical activity will conquer the strength of Evey, who prefers to see his energy channeled into the proper course of making money. Thus, the details of the story unobtrusively work together to create a coherent pattern of imagery.
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Ace Anderson is a former star high school basketball player. As the story opens, he is driving home after being fired. Fearing the wrath of Evey, his wife, he finds some consolation in listening to “Blueberry Hill” on the car radio, while he sucks powerfully on a cigarette. Reverting to adolescence, Ace challenges the teenager in the fat car in the next lane, emerging triumphant when his opponent’s vehicle stalls. He then decides to stop at his mother’s house to pick up Bonnie, the baby. His mother offers him the consolation that he was probably seeking by welcoming his dismissal from a job that had no future. She also states that he and Bonnie are welcome in her house if Evey is too angry. Evey, she suggests, is a wonderful girl, but she is a Catholic and should have married one of her own kind.
When Ace declines his mother’s offer, she changes the subject by informing him that his name is in the newspaper. Ace, remembering a former coach’s advice about avoiding cars when you can make it on foot, sets out for home at a gallop, with Bonnie in his arms. At home, he indulges in the ritual of combing his hair in an attempt to get the look of Alan Ladd, the popular film star. Worried about Evey’s impending arrival, he turns on the television, opens a beer, and finds the newspaper article, which states that a current basketball player has come within eighteen points of the county scoring record set by Olinger High’s Fred Anderson in the 1949-1950 season. Ace is angered at being referred to as Fred, however, and the article only increases the tightness in his stomach, which is similar to the pregame jitters of high school days.
When Evey arrives, Ace feigns nonchalance, but she has already heard about the loss of the job from his mother. Ace sees that Evey is in a sarcastic mood (“thinking she was Lauren Bacall,” he observes to himself—again, the unreal world of films, television, and popular music provides his frame of reference), and an argument is inevitable. She states that she is fed up with his stunts. She is ready to let him run right out of her life. He ought to be making his plans for the future immediately.
Ace attempts to divert Evey’s anger by turning on the charm and turning up the volume of the radio, which is playing romantic music. The mood of the moment seduces Evey into her husband’s arms. As they dance, Ace seems to return to greatness. He imagines his high school friends forming a circle around them; in this fantasy world, he is once more the center of attention.
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