Sujet national, juin 2005, série L, LV1:Adapted from jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 2002.
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The narrator s father is becoming suspicious as he has been looking for a house for two months and hasn t found one. Up to now, the houses he would hâve liked to buy were either not for sale, already sold or too expensive. Moreover, the estate agent he is going to visit a house with is the last one he can resort to.
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♦ Sujet national,juin 2005, série L, LVI
Shortly after the riots, like many other white Detroiters, my parents began looking for a house
in the suburbs.
The suburb they had their sights on was the affiuent lakefront district of the auto
magnates: Grosse Pointe.
It was much harder than they ever expected.
In the Cadillac, scouting the five Grosse Pointe (the
s Park, the City, the Farms, the Woods, the Shores), my parents saw FOR SALE signs on many lawns.
But when they stopped in at the realty offices and filled out applications, they found that the
houses suddenly went off the market, or were sold, or doubled in price.
After two months of searching, Milton was clown to his last real estate agent, a Miss Jane Marsh of
Great Lakes Realty.
He had growing suspicious.
10 "This property is rather eccentric", Miss Marsh is telling Milton one September afternoon as she
leads him up the driveway.
"It takes a buyer with a little vision." She opens the front door and
leads him inside.
"But it does have quite a pedigree.
It was designed by Hudson Clark." She waits
for recognition.
"Of the Prairie School 1 ".
Milton nods, dubiously 2• He swivels his head, looking over the place.
He hadn't much cared for
is the picture Miss Marsh had shown him over at the office.
Too boxy-looking.
Too modern.
'Tm not sure my wife would go for this kind of thing, Miss Marsh."
'Tm afraid we don't have anything more traditional to show at the moment."
She leads him along a spare white hallway and clown a small flight of open stairs.
And now, as they
step into the sunken living room, Miss Marsh's head begins to swivel, too.
20 Smiling a polite smile that reveals a rabbity expanse of upper gum 3, she examines Milton's com
plexion, his hair, his shoes.
She glances at his ·real estate application again.
"Stephanides.
What kind of name is that?"
"It's Greek."
"Greek.
How interesting."
2s More upper gum flashes as Miss Marsh makes a notation on her pad.
Then she resumes the tour:
"Sunken living room.
Greenhouse adjoining the dining area.
And, as you can see, the house is well
supplied with windows."
"It pretty much is a window, Miss Marsh." Milton moves doser to the glass and examines the
backyard.
Meanwhile, a few feet behind, Miss Marsh examines Milton.
30 "May I ask what business you're in, Mr.
Stephanides?"
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Prairie School : 20th century school of architecture made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright 2.
Dubious: uncertain.
3.
Upper gum: pink flesh inside the mouth above the teeth..
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