Chapter 2 Summary

This chapter narrates events that occurred on the day of the confrontation between Geraldo, Dolly and Connie. Narration describes that Connie visited Dolly earlier that day, and Connie tried to convince Dolly to leave Geraldo, but Dolly refused. Narration then describes how Connie, slightly stoned from the marijuana Dolly had been smoking, decided to walk a while before catching the subway back home and stopped by a playground, where she mused on how one of the girls there looks like how Angelina might look. Narration also describes her loving/resentful contemplation of Eddie, Angelina's father.

Connie's thoughts are interrupted by the appearance of a slender, attractive, not-quite effeminate young man, Luciente. Connie immediately suspects him of being after her money, but when he doesn't try to steal anything and, in fact, talks to her with a strangely-worded kind of affection (referring to her...