Gwendolyn Rodger's Contribution To That Summer
(Find topic sentence). Gwendolyn Rodger’s contribution to That Summer brought forward additional lessons that were then taught to Haven McPhail. Her few appearances may have been brief, but carried much weight that was needed to bring the story along. Taller than Haven McPhail, Gwendolyn was a worldwide famous model who, too, once lived in Lakeview. Her secrets that she had hid from the public eye, yet seen by Haven, allowed McPhail to realize that even the most flawless people, do have their own faults. As Haven and her friend, Casey, walked around their development, Haven sees Gwendolyn in her most disheveled ways. Through Haven’s eyes, she sees, “I saw her face then, the same one we’d seen on all those magazine covers, and on MTV. But it wasn’t the same: it wasn’t bronzed, with pink lips and lashes a mile long; no hair blowing, back in the wind, framing her face… Instead, I saw just a tall girl with a blank, plain expression, thin and angular and lost” (Dessen 117).