Summary

Elaine walks to the gallery and watches her paintings being unpacked. She feels self-conscious in a powder blue jogging suit, critical of her own work, not wanting to look at it very long. She meets Charna, the gallery director, and two other women helping with the exhibit. Another woman, Andrea, comes into the gallery and Elaine is surprised to find out that they have arranged an interview without consulting her. She goes through with the interview, but she remains mostly uncooperative, on the defensive, imagining that Andrea is thinking negative thoughts about her. The interview process makes her very agitated, and she seems to be having some kind of psychotic episode, but she comes back quickly.

One day, Mrs. Smeath invites Elaine to go to church with them. She dresses carefully in her best clothes, but when she gets to Grace’s house, she has...