He describes how there had been no losses and how the audience was waiting for the Yankees to drop one and with that he adds emphasis by the rhetorical fragments, “which they did” and “enough.” This allows the reader to understand the audience’s frustration with the Red Sox and the comma in the sentence also adds a pause for dramatic effect. He also uses rhetorical fragments to add a sense of satire when he says, “we loved it.” The “we” he is referring to is the baseball fans and he describes how the audience falls for the high notes that are snag at the “Star Spangled Benner”. Throughout, he also uses short sentences like “This is fun,” “The season had begun,” and “So let’s play ball,” at the end to provide emphasis and a final …show more content…
“The many headed monster,” which he refers to, is Fenway Faithful, and he comes back to this metaphor of monsters at various points in his writings to compare the people to monsters as he expresses how in the last season the Red Sox “broke its monstrous heart,” and this season was the “first kiss of another prolonged entanglement.” He portrays the game of baseball as a “fling” with “ups and downs” to describe the relationship between the fans and baseball as they cheer and boo on the events that occur. The fans get disappointed, boo, and hate on the players when the season isn’t going quite right, however, Updike describes that monsters also have “short memories, elastic hearts, and very foolable faculties,” meaning they are forgiving and hopeful for the next season. He also includes that baseball is about the fun of the game, not anything else, which is difficult for the “hungry monster” to understand whilst the fans be dedicated to their pastime and yearn for “their team” to play