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CHAPTER 8
Summary
When John comes back, he whispers to Lorraine that Mrs. Pignati is dead. Since this chapter is her part of the narrative they are writing, her reaction to this news is even more pronounced than if John had related it. She feels a terrible chill run though her, because she had had a suspicion that the Pigman’s wife was dead. She didn’t exactly believe he had murdered her and sealed her body up somewhere, but she had noticed a strange glaze in his eyes when he would laugh, as if he didn’t really believe his own laughter. She thinks it is very sad that the girl in her confirmation dress had already grown up, gotten married and had died and her husband cannot admit it.
John also finds something else upstairs - a credit card that Mr. Pignati only used for the fancy food delicatessen at Beekman’s Department Store. John and Lorraine have never seen one before and are fascinated by what it can do for the one who possesses it (this story takes place around 1968, so credit cards were not yet a normal part of the American economy).
When Lorraine gets home that night, a significant thought strikes her:
Mr. and Mrs. Pignati must have shared many things, including preparing
food together. She and her mother never do things together like that and
it makes her sad. Her mother tells her after she gets home that the man
she’s caring for now has only a few months to live and “he’s still got
itchy............
Notes
Lorraine is a very astute observer of people. She truly understands
and even sympathizes with her mother’s life, even though her mother is
mean to her. She also understands how sad the Pigman is when he won’t
even admit that Conchetta is dead. Furthermore, she understands John’s
need to find happiness anyway he can, even if it’s doing silly things
like placing a cigarette in the hands of a mannequin or roller skating
through Beekman’s. He needs to deny a life over which he’s becoming more
and more frustrated. For Lorraine, being with the Pigman is........
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