Part 3 Summary

In the first scene of this section, the female members of the Greek Chorus (playing Li'l Bit's Mother and Grandmother) sit fifteen-year-old Li'l Bit down at the kitchen table and instruct her on relations between men and women. First, the Grandmother talks bluntly about how it seems that all her husband wants is sex; in the course of the discussion she gets herself- and the Mother - all hot and bothered.

Li'l Bit steps out of the scene to tell us about a time when she experienced this "get it now" aspect of male sexuality. It was a later-in-life encounter on a bus with a man much younger than her, and she adds that as a result of that encounter, she understood Peck a little better -the appeal and attraction of being the older, the more experienced, and the more mature.

She then...