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She's Come Undone Chapter 6 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Ma and Dolores continue their mom/teenage daughter bickering every morning before school.
  • Dolores lets Jack borrow her fan one night and stays to talk to him.
  • He's flirty and ticklish and aggressive… and ten years older than she is.
  • He asks her "how good are you at keeping secrets?" (1.6.75), and then he tells her that Rita is pregnant, but she can't tell anyone because she's had two miscarriages already.
  • When he starts tickling her again, and climbing on top of her, Dolores starts crying and trying to get away.
  • She takes responsibility for it, calling herself an "idiot" (1.6.105) and leaves.
  • The next morning, he offers to take her to school and she gets in the car with him.
  • He calls her Dolores del Rio and says she's prettier than all the girls who bully her; then he confirms that she hasn't told anyone his secret about Rita. Dolores hasn't.
  • At school, she makes friends with a girl who smokes named Norma French, and that afternoon, when Jack drives her home, Dolores takes a puff of his cigarette.