Summary

At the Maple Tree Apartments, Olive had trouble making friends. During their weekly trips to the grocery store, the other residents sang “The Wheels on the Bus,” and Olive noticed their adult diapers through their pants, wishing that Jack had been there to witness it all. Occasionally she escaped and drove to the point to eat doughnuts by herself and reminisce about her former life, but at the end of the day she always had to return to the Maple Tree Apartments. She quickly found that many of the residents there were cliquey and she was not wealthy enough to join them. Even her friend Edith did not make an effort to include Olive at her table during dinner. At night Olive watched the news and found the fact that, “fascism might be knocking on the door of the country,” quite interesting. (270). Eventually she...