I'm all better now. Let's get you home.
-- Lynette (chapter 2)

Importance: After attending her accounting course, Lynette feels discouraged. She has worked so hard to do well, yet has not received the grades she wanted. While sitting in the car with her brother outside the campus, Lynette asks him to give her a moment to think. Though the third person narrator is limited to Lynette's consciousness, the narrator does not inhabit her mind in this moment. Lynette tells her brother she is better, but the closed narration in this moment suggests otherwise. Lynette is pretending to be okay for her brother's sake, and for her own. At this point in the novel she is unwilling to confront what is really happening inside of her.

Things like that mean something.
-- Doreen (chapter 3)

Importance: During Lynette and Doreen's conversation about Doreen's new car, Doreen reveals her true reasons for buying it. She feels bad about herself. She is...