Chapters 6 and 7 Summary

Frank wakes early and goes to his meeting with the football player. On the way there, Frank thinks about the woman who was the key to ending his marriage. This woman was not someone he slept with, but a bored housewife with whom he spent an evening speaking with. After their meeting, he kept in touch with this woman, sending letters back and forth. It was finding these letters after a break-in that caused his ex-wife to make the decision to end their marriage.

The meeting does not go well. The football player announces that he will no longer be motivating his former teammates. The player does still plan to go to law school, but does not expect big things of it. The man is depressed and Frank can clearly see that he is full of rage for what has happened...