Jeepers Creepers Satire

With her best friend Ann Stoker she would also hang around the Fleet at Portsmouth and Southsea. (A photograph of the two, both inexplicably in boiler suits, shows a hefty young Monica not displayed to best advantage next to the more petite Ann.) They had to avoid her brother Bunny if he was in port and likewise her Uncle Gerald, brother of Henry, who was captain of the battleship Repulse. With another friend she used to drive up to Oxford and Cambridge, a wind-up gramophone in the back of her Sunbeam Special sports car playing Jeepers Creepers, and go to balls and parties in students' rooms and be very jolly. One night, somewhat the worse for wear, Monica somehow got her long-nosed Sunbeam tightly jammed in the driveway at number 52 and was unable to back it out after sobering up. It remained there for a number of [cut] months.
At a Magdalen College sherry party one day she was wearing a ribbed jersey dress, unflattering to her size, and heard two men on the other side of the room sniggering the Mae West line 'Come up and see me some time', which she knew meant not that she was …show more content…
But as she walked in the park with her dog Ugly, seeing other women with boyfriends and husbands and children, Monica was still without direction. Doady was happily married and so was her brother Bunny; friends and cousins were also getting engaged and marrying. Monica had been to too many weddings, aimless, envying the bride but not quite wanting the groom in question, conscious merely that she lacked something the bride now had: a point to life, or perhaps status. As people in the park passed by without noticing her, Monica promised herself that one day they would know who she was – what for, she could not say. But she had great ambition. Monica later recognized that beneath the shyness and self-consciousness of a very young woman there lurked a confidence that was simply looking for a chance to surface.