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• The Main Characters, Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are introduced. They are a married couple. The pair have signed a lease on an apartment only to find out that there is an apartment open in the Bramford which is where Rosemary has always wanted to live. The setting is in the early 60's.
• The Woodhouse's have an appointment with Mrs.Cortez who made the date for them to view the apartment. She instructs them to go to the Bramford at eleven- thirty and to find Mr.Micklas or Jerome. She tells them to introduce themselves as the party she sent to view apartment 7E.
•  Guy is an actor.
• Mr. Micklas is described as small and dapper missing fingers from both hands
• The apartment they are shown has four rooms, tow baths and five closets.
• Rosemary hopes to turn one of the rooms into a nursery in the future.
• Mr. Micklas tells the Woodhouse's of the apartments previous owner Mrs. Gardenia. He tells them how she recently passed. Rosemary asks if she died in the apartment in which Mr.Micklas replies no. Mrs. Gardenia died peacefully in her sleep from a coma in the hospital. 
• They discover Mrs. Gardenia covered up one of the five closets. Once found the Woodhouse's feel that Mrs.Gardenia's son should be the one to open it. Mr. Micklas insists that he is to show the apartment in its entirety. Once opened they discover a vacuum and towels.
• Rosemary sees a few items from the apartment that she would like to keep and asks Mr. Micklas to ask Mrs.Gardenia's son about them.
• As they are departing they are told that Mrs.Cortez will give them until two-thirty to make a decision; if she hadn't heard from them by then she would call the next party on the waiting list. 
• Rosemary and Guy Go to The Russian Tea Room, A Cafe, and there they make the decision to take up the offer on the Bramford. They Call Mrs.Cortez and make an appointment with her to finalize. 
• Guy fabricates a story to get out of the lease they had previously made on the other apartment.
• The Woodhouse's meet with Hutch, a friend of Rosemary, for dinner. He cautions of the Bramford and tells them stories. He tells them of the numerous suicides, of the "Brams" bad reputation, of the Trench sisters who were occasional cannibals who once ate a niece. He tells them of Adrian Marcato who practiced witchcraft, and of a baby who was found dead, wrapped in newspaper in the Bramford's basement.
• Rosemary seems a bit uneasy and Guy tries to rationalize the events.
• Rosemary asks Hutch if he really feels that they should not move their even though she has no intentions of backing out. He replies to her question telling her that he broke of a perfectly good date to "say his say". 
• Hutch tries to usher them into moving somewhere else which does not work.
• The apartment gets painted and apartment is prepared. 
• The Woodhouse's meet the Gouls in 7F, a pleasant elderly couple, the German-accented Bruhns and their son Walter in 7C, The Kelloggs in 7G, Mr.Stein in 7H, the Messrs, Dubin and DeVore a gay couple in 7B, the Kapps in 7D, and the unseen Castevet's in 7A.
• In the laundry room Rosemary meets Terry Gionoffrio, who she mistakes for an actress named Anna Marie Alberghetti because of a resemblance. The two talk and Rosemary finds out that Terry stays with the Castevets. Terry tells Rosemary how the Castevet's found her on the streets sick on dope and homeless. She tells Rosemary how they took her in like a daughter and made her better and that they are paying for her to go back to secretary school and that she will one day pay them back. 
• Terry shows Rosemary a charm in a locket that Mrs. Castevet had given her. The two decide to come back together to get the laundry since it is finished because they are both scared of being in the basement alone. Once back in her apartment, Rosemary finds a slightly agitated Guy who is going on about a part that he was in competition for. He makes funof the other actor's name where I found out that Guy changed his own name; it was originally Sherman Peden.
• Rosemary calls Hutch and reports to him about her settlement in the apartment. She tells him of Terry and that all is going well.
• On Friday night, September 17th, Guy and Rosemary return home from a night out and discover a crowd of about twenty people when they see policemen. They see an officer cover a body. Rosemary sees that it is the body of Terry. Terry apparently committed suicide. The officer asks for any information about the girl and Rosemary helps by answering a few questions. 
• The Castevet's arrive shortly after Rosemary answers questions. An officer goes over to them. This is the first time that Rosemary has seen the Castevet's. When they receive the news they are in disbelief and once they see the body they are confirmed. Mrs. Castevet becomes slightly emotional an Mr.Castevet seems a bit impartial. Mrs. Castevet tries to rationalize that it was an accident, that terry was cleaning, until the officer brings forth a note that Terry left.
• The Woodhouse's retire to their apartment and Rosemary overhears or dreams a conversation between the Castevet's. She hears Sister Agnes say "all she has to be is young, healthy, and not a virgin". This did not make sense to her so he turned over and it was Saturday afternoon. 
• On the following Monday morning, Rosemary is greeted by Mrs. Castevet who thanks her for her comforting remarks the night Terry died, where rosemary said terry spoke highly of the Castevet's.
•  Mrs.Castevet tells Rosemary that Terry was cremated not in a ceremony because that is how Terry would have wanted it.
• Rosemary gives a tour of the apartment and Mrs.Castevet asks a series of questions. Mrs. Castevet acknowledges her "nosey-ness" and apologizes for it but continues with the questions. Mrs. Castevet invites Rosemary and her husband over for dinner and says it would be nice to have company because it would be the first time they'd be alone since Terry's death. Rosemary agrees to the diner date. When guy arrives he confirms that he did not get the part he was in competition for. When Rosemary tells him of the plans for dinner he is skeptical but soon decides it will be his "good deed" for the day and agrees with the understanding that they will notify the Castevet's that dinner would be a one time deal.

Additional Thoughts:

Why did I choose this novel?

I chose this novel because it falls under the genre of books that I normally read. I initially wanted to read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, but could not find it. Then I wanted to read Henry James' Turn Of The Screw, but was not able to. So I found Rosemary's Baby which was coincidently was referenced by Truman Capote to be " A darkly brilliant tale of modern deviltry that, like James, Turn Of The Screw, induces to believe the unbelievable..". I felt that since it was mentioned by the author who's book I wanted to read who also referenced my other book choice, that this book would be great for me to read. I've also heard the title a few times so I figured it would be good.

Who is telling the story? Point Of View? Do you trust the narrator?

The story is being told by a narrator and it is in first person omniscient. I do trust the narrator at this point because the story is not being told from a character which if was the case might give me only their point of view. The way the story is being told is what I think sort of a bird's eye view. 

Describe the Setting.

The setting is New York City during the early 1960s. The location where most of the story takes place is the Bramford which is a living complex comprised of apartments.

Who are The Main Characters and what problems so they face?

Rosemary Woodhouse- wants to move into the Bramford and also wished to become pregnant

Guy Woodhouse-  Rosemary's Husband who is trying to become established in the acing world but is finding it difficult to land a big role to get him to his peak 

Mr Hutch- Rosemary's friend who fails to grasp her attention how he wants to 

Mister and Misses Castevet- neighbors of the Woodhouse's they wish to befriend the Woodhouse's 

What do you predict will happen? Why do you predict this?

I predict that the Castevet's are going to be a big part of this story because they are brought up quite a bit in this first section. I think the Rosemary will in fact become pregnant, one, because the title of the book is Rosemary's Baby, two, she wants to become pregnant very much; therefore i think she will do what she has to do to achieve this goal. I also think that Guy will become mean because he is frustrated that he has not found a role so far.