story itself is secondary…We remember the voice far longer than the story.” Rupp reminds us that the name “Platt” is German for “flat” or “low.” Critic Robert Detwieler comments on Platt as a social type: Footnotes Sources Begley, Adam. 2014. Updike. HarperCollins Publishers, New York. Detweiler, Robert. 1984. John Updike. Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. (Paperback). Rupp, Richard H.. 1970. John Updike: Style in Search of a Center (from Celebration in Post-War American Fiction: 1945-1967, University of Miami Press) in John Updike: Modern Critical Views, Harold Bloom, editor. 1959 short stories Short stories by John Updike