Evelyn's Apartment

Evelyn's apartment is in Manhattan's Upper East Side on 5th Avenue overlooking Central Park. This is where the interview takes places in the present timeline of events. In Evelyn's narration of her life story, she buys the apartment in the late 1960s and lives there with Celia while pretending to be married to Harry Cameron. Harry and John Braverman live in a second apartment just down the street. It is an expensive and beautifully decorated apartment featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, ivory carpet, and a grand piano. There is a promotional poster from Little Women, the movie Evelyn filmed with Celia St. James in 1959, hanging over the fireplace.

Hell's Kitchen

Evelyn grows up in Hell's Kitchen (a neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan), where her mother passes away when she is 11 years old and she is left with her abusive father. She becomes desperate to get out this situation because of...