th Harriet. At Guy’s memorial service, she mourned with Nan instead of against her and gave up her room, the master bedroom, to Pete and Harriet because “It was meant for two people in love” (384).Isabel’s Bed takes place in Truro on the Cape mainly at Isabel’s house which was “more Malibu than Cape Cod” (10). It was made out of “cement cylinders painted white, big ones and small ones, as if client Krug had said to an L.A. architect, ‘Make me feel as if I’m living inside a toppled pyramid of canned goods’”(10). The front door was a large curved steel door without a doorknob that immediately reminded Harriet of the Jetsons. Once inside, there was glass wherever there was ocean, blond wood wherever there was floor, and spiral staircases wherever ceiling disappeared into cylinders. Each room in the house had a different theme. One was all gray with a gray-tinted glass dome for a ceiling and fabrics made from natural fibers – cotton, wool, silk, and mohair. Another had walls that “looked like petrified sand, like indoor dunes” (15) and raisin colored walls and fabrics. The bathroom with this room was all glass with jets built into the walls and a floor made of sandstone with a drain in the middle. Isabel’s room was the largest and had all shades of purple with rounded woolen walls and a sheared sheepskin bedspread. Harriet’s favorite room, the black and white kitchen, was built into a skylight over the foyer and had the look of a “balcony caf at an upscale mall” (22). Everything could be seen from it, “the harlequin kitchen, the master suite with its two penthouse lofts, the dim glow of Provincetown up the coast, and a deck designed by a student of the tides” (22). Behind the house, lay the ocean stretching on forever; it was like a private beach that no one knew about interrupted occasionally by wild blu...
