Part Three: Unbecoming - Chapters 22, 23, and 24 Summary and Analysis

By this time Dr. Wilbur has met Peggy Lou, Peggy Ann, Vicky, Mary, Marcia, Vanessa, Mike, Sid, Marjorie, Ruthie, Helen, Sybil Ann, Clara and Nancy. Sybil, however, has not met a single one. Sybil continues to lose time, with the others taking over ascendancy.

Sybil finally listens to a tape of the Peggys. The tape brings back some of Sybil's own memories about her mother and Willow Corners, and awakens something deep in her. She also realizes that the others are real and not figments of her imagination.

Vicky explains the moment of Sybil's first disassociation, which happened when she was cared for by a kind and fun doctor during her stay at a hospital for tonsillitis. The doctor would not take her home with him, like she requested, and she...