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Do you think that the narrator’s friend died while she was sitting on the bench across from the apartment? She counts up and locates the window of the friend’s apartment. The friend is looking off into the distance but the narrator later imagines that she waved to her. Good-bye?
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Amy Bernstein
Just finished this book. I think it's entirely possible the narrator's friend died while she was down below on the bench.--that she took the pills. But I didn't take that away. The tentative conclusion I drew was that the dying friend would not take the pills after all; she would let nature take its course, and the narrator would see it through with her to the end.
Carol Katarsky
It's deliberately ambiguous, but this is possible. She also mentions that she bought groceries that the friend "will never eat." Which could be a reference to her poor appetite or to her death.
I liked that she left it open-ended. The moment of death was less important than the things leading up to it...
I liked that she left it open-ended. The moment of death was less important than the things leading up to it...
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Mary Fusoni
I do not think that the friend died at that time. The narrator speaks about that incident (seeing her friend at the window) as just another thing that happened when she sat in the park, as she often did. "Once, sitting in the park across the street, I scanned the front of her building. ..."
Nancyann
I didn't care for the ending, period. I needed some sense of closure and this provided none.
Shannon Yarbrough
I thought that for a moment. I also thought, for a moment, the narrator was dying in the park...maybe of a heart attack or something.
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