Summary

Step We Grandly

This chapter is told from Clara’s viewpoint. She remarks that she still visits Edgar, though she knows that he is really just a shell now. He doesn’t respond to anything, but she keeps coming to see him every day, bringing food for Eva and Danny. She has begun seeing another man, named Ozzie.

Edgar dies on a Tuesday, and Clara writes that she left on a Sunday, which was only decent. The funeral had been well attended, and Eva had received so much food in the way of casseroles and fruit baskets that they wouldn’t have to buy groceries for weeks. She writes that she and Ozzie are going to Detroit and will be married there.

In a flash forward it is in the early 1960s and Clara has been widowed for many years. She is...