Summary
In this new section of the book, at least two new chapters began. Picking up where it was left off, Louisa and Clem are bonding over lunch. They are discussing things in their lives, mainly about Louisa and her marriage. Clem is trying to cheer her up and give her good advice, but that backfired. Zip was the one that mainly helped Louisa as best as he could so she wouldn't be as depressed, and through this they bonded a lot while she was with Clem. Clem also started questioning her relationship with Zip because she felt the spark seemed to be disappearing, but after one night together the sparks came back. Then, in that same chapter, Clem and Louisa found Tighty, the guy that worked for her mom who ran away with her dogs. They talked and caught up, and one of the dogs gave birth. The chapter concludes with Zip keeping a puppy and him and Clem trying to name it.
In the next chapter, the years are passing by, and it is now 1989. Hugh and Louisa are still married, and it has now been four years since they have been together, and yet they still haven't been able to rekindle a spark. At lunch, even Louisa's mother questions why they haven't had children. In this chapter, Louisa reminisces on her childhood, and found a lot of things while cleaning out the barn her parents had bought. At the end of this chapter, Louisa is still questioning what she should do with Hugh. Following this chapter, Clem is now speaking, and she is just waking up in the hospital and she has found out she was asleep for almost an entire month, yet she doesn't recall the accident. She does recall, though, other accidents that have put her in the hospital, and she brings up how she still speaks to Luke, but now her new infatuation is this guy named Jerry, who is a vet. The section concludes with Clem asking Louisa to get in contact with Jerry to tell him where she is, and it seems they appear to visit her while she is in the ICU.
Quote
"Louisa looks both apalled and demoralized, and it's all my fault. How can I laugh at Zip? At least he knows how to console"(Glass 89).
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In these chapters, it feels like time is being pushed back yet brought forward, and the reader can't really tell why something that happened in one chapter is different from how it is in the next chapter. The only indication that the reader knows that time is moving forward is through the beginning of new chapters, and if the characters slightly mention it as well. The narration still switches from Clem to Louisa, but now they seem to switch through a new chapter. They both also continue to reminisce, and they get so caught up in it it gets hard to tell how it forms part of the past. The difference in what they reminisce on is that Louisa goes through objects that remind her of what had happened in that time, and it can usually be associated with good memories. With Clem, her being stuck in the hospital makes her remember reasons why she has been there before, and these memories contain scars and pain.
The reason I chose this quote was because it shows Clem's helplessness in helping her sister not be so down, and yet she can't seem to do anything about it. This seems to bother Clem, and in my opinion, this is a moving quote because even though they hurt each other and argue, they still love each other, and they help each other out when needed. Even if Louisa didn't treat Clem very well when they were little, Clem still wants to help her big sister. It also seems to bother her that even Zip seems to know how to console Louisa better than Clem, and it makes her feel useless that she can try but won't succeed. She even said it herself that it's her fault, which means she doesn't know what to do, and it has her fustrated. It shows how caring she is, even if she acts like she doesn't care.
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