The ordeal between Adam and Eve takes place when Eve cooks a meal for Adam to compensate for not inviting him to her housewarming party. Although sincere on her part it raises tension on various levels. For example:1) Eve uses Adam's chicken rather than her own to cook him dinner.
2) Eve's interpretation of cooking chicken is a rather bland offering to the West Indian palette.
3) The meal throws open the bigger picture of table fellowship between the working classes and the middle classes.
4) The meal also observes urban society rubbing shoulders with polite society.
5) The meal presents a clash of culture between West Indian cooking and English cooking.
6) The meal brings together the polar opposites of a Conservative woman and a New Labour man.
7) The meal brings together the establishment as represented by Eve and the marginalised as represented by Adam.
8) All of the hurdles that stand in Adam's way are embodied in Eve, whereas all of what Eve is reduced to is embodied in Adam.
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