Mcphee's The Search For Marvin Gardens

McPhee’s narrative as well as descriptive essay is about Atlantic City and is compared to the board game of life, “monopoly”, or is it? McPhee captured his audience with an opening statement about the board game itself, “monopoly” and the up and downs of the game. Go. I roll the dice- a six and a two. (Oates/Robert 361) Does this actual opening thesis statement, “The Search for Marvin Gardens” really about a board game? I do believe that McPhee had another agenda when writing this essay. McPhee leads us down a path of descriptive writing, cause and effect as well as a good narrative essay. One will have to wait to read to the end to grasp the concept of McPhee’s writings about the once beautiful Atlantic City.
He began to compare Vermont