Summary

Eileen sees her father sleeping through the kitchen window with shoes on his feet, a clear sign that he extricated the keys from the car. Worried about what he might have done, since he has a history of disruptive behavior whenever he has access to his shoes, Eileen wonders what is the point of preventing him since he would never receive more than a slap on the wrist from the police. She tries to break in through the cellar door with no luck, wondering if she slitting her wrists by breaking a window might draw her father's attention. Returning to the front of the house, Eileen sees her father missing and tries to call out for him, wary of the neighbors, who generally do kind things such as keep up the grass but keep a distance from the Dunlops. She realizes that the windows...