Chapters 27, 28 and 29 Summary

Dolores returns to the novelty shop and quickly advances to assistant manager. Her employer, Mr. Buchbinder, insists that he help pay tuition and Dolores goes back to college, taking English 101 as her first class. Dolores tells Roberta that she's not cut out for college, laments the twenty-four ninety-five she spent on the textbook and says she'll be forty-two before she graduates, if she takes class at her current rate. "And how old will you be by then if you don't graduate?" Roberta asks. Dolores is then painting Roberta's toenails hot pink and she says that she has an essay due the next week, that she's to describe an everyday task she performs. She says that she might describe painting her toenails, then runs upstairs to write her essay. Roberta points out that she has only three painted toenails as Dolores is...