Ginger Summary

Ginger and Whitney are staying in the same motel. Ginger helps care for Whitney as Whitney disappears in a drug-induced stupor. Ginger reflects on how she has been drinking less lately, and about how she wants to stop drinking altogether.

Alex comes home in tears. She has been raped and robbed. Ginger heads out to do a strip show by herself, and as she strips, she is determined to get out.

Ginger Analysis

Ginger realizes, through Whitney's drug-induced stupor, and Alex's rape, that it is time she gets herself out of the stripping business. Between everything she has grown up with, and has seen in her time as a stripper, Ginger has all of the proof she needs that this is now how she wants to live her life. She resolves that she will not become like Whitney, Iris, or Alex.