Who does Benji Side with? NP or Nick?
In Sag Harbor , Benji works a summer job at Jonni Waffle, as an ice cream scooper. He gets all the free ice cream he can eat while on the job, which seems like a pretty sweet deal, until he decides to let it all melt in a blackout. After everyone leaves the building and finishes locking up, Benji runs back inside under the alibi of getting his mix tape. While inside, he leaves the freezer door open. Because of Benji's actions, the ice cream was never able to be sold, instead melting on the floor throughout the night. Years later, Benji still imagines the merchandise melting, "The bottom cans collaps[ing]... and the ones up high tumbl[ing] out of the freezer, knocking the doors wide, the lids of the cans popping off (Whitehead 144). One would wonder what Benji's incentive is for ruining that much ice cream. Because of context clues and previous discussions between Benji and his friends earlier in the chapter titled "If I Could Pay You Less I Wo...