Summary

"I Had to Take Her Apart to Make Her Fit” began with Jeptha Arrison’s acknowledgement that “he was born in a bowling alley, and he planned to die in one” (245). He said this to Jeet, the oldest man in the Alleys, who pestered Margaret with sexist requests. Jeet went on conversing with Jeptha until suddenly he yelled for help. Jeptha lied on the bench with crossed hands and straight legs, actively dying. He could hear those trying to help him and thought about all the people that he loved. Jeptha had told LuEtta some time before that he believed Bertha was a time traveler, and he recorded the times he believed Bertha had disappeared throughout the years. Later, Margaret pulled out Bertha’s scrapbook with clippings of LuEtta...