Summary

In “Hill of Hell,” a woman recalls visiting a friend in New York and delivering a lecture at the university where he worked. Afterward, she told him (the friend) that she (the woman) had become pregnant by her (the woman's) husband, but that she did not want the baby. She was fulfilling her husband's wishes to start a family. However, she later grew to like the idea and was looking forward to the baby. Unfortunately, the baby was dead when delivered. Her friend told her that his mother, father, and sister had all recently died. Six months after this conversation, the narrator's friend also died. The narrator divorced her husband and remarried. She had a daughter with her second husband. This daughter was difficult from childhood and was later diagnosed with a mood disorder. She became addicted to drugs but...