Free Women: 5 Summary

Janet requests to be allowed to go to boarding school, a request to which Anna agrees. Anna loses her daily structure when Janet leaves. Everything else in Anna and Molly's lives has changed as well. Tommy and Marion have gone on a trip, Richard and Jean have also gone away, and Molly is caring for Richard's three boys. Anna decides she needs a man to cure her blues and sees a man named Nelson. This affair does not go well and sends Anna even deeper into depression. She finds herself trying to bring some order to her world by ordering information in newspapers and journals. She cuts articles from these publications and pins them to her walls until her entire room is covered with the articles.

Anna is concerned Janet will come home from school to find her in this cracked...