Three Women

Sloane’s father visits, along with her brother Gabe and his family. Sloane is suddenly struck with the fact that these supposedly loving family members turned a blind eye to her eating disorder when she was a teenager. Sloane also remembers Gabe coming into her room one night to ask if she wanted to “mess around” (252). She then reflects on the fact that no one in her family seemed concerned with the fact that she might have been killed in the car accident she had been involved in as a teenager. Her nieces ask her about this event while giggling, and Sloane feels sure that she has been represented as “kind of a disaster” by her brother and her brother’s wife (254). She feels resentful and angry.

One of the jurors is hospitalized on the morning of the verdict of the trial. Byers asks for a mistrial; Hoy begs the judge to insist that the remaining jurors come to a verdict. The judge asks the 11 jurors to present the verdicts on the counts which they had decided on before the 12th juror left. Count one alleged that Knodel penetrated Maggie’s vulva with his fingers in his classroom; count two alleged that Knodel placed Maggie’s hand to his penis in his classroom; and count five alleged that Knodel penetrated Maggie’s vulva and put her hand on his penis in Maggie’s car.