Significance of Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen's power in Catherine Grace's life doesn't hold any rhyme or reason; it is simply her special place to have her own thoughts. When she is a young girl, it is where she dreams of moving away. As she grows, it is a place to visit with her boyfriend, Hank. In the end of the story, she is at the Dairy Queen when she cries out in grief and anger against her parents and receives some pointed but kind words from the Dairy Queen's proprietor about her own mistakes and blindness.