Summary

In the chapter “The Ceremony,” the narrator took some meat that night and put it in Emerence’s apartment. She was hoping some of the cats would return. In the morning there was still no sign of them. Viola refused to go near the apartment. Even though he looked for Emerence in the places they used to go on walks, he never showed any interest in the apartment.

On the day she received the prize, the narrator felt as if she were both coming and going. She felt people could see the horror she had just been through with Emerence on her face as pictures were taken. The narrator was also realizing that Emerence would not want to live because the framework that had made up her life was gone. That framework was gone because the narrator had abandoned Emerence in...