Chapter I Summary and Analysis

In Chapter I, Parents, Ms. Hepburn describes her life beginning with her childhood in Hartford, Connecticut in a house filled with brothers and sisters, her move to college, and then to New York to start her acting career. Ms. Hepburn tells the stories of her life in films, her romantic relationships, and even the loss of those very close to her like her brother Tom and the love of her life Spencer Tracy. Ms. Hepburn even learns things about herself in the process of writing this autobiography and she shares all these things in a very kind and poetic way.

Ms.Hepburn introduces us to her family in this section. Her mother's father, Alfred Houghton, killed himself on the railroad tracks leaving his wife, Caroline, to raise their three daughters. Soon after his death, Caroline dies of cancer and...