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Diavola
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Chapters 37-44Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content, gender discrimination, death, illness, pregnancy termination, child death, child sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and death by suicide.
Chapter 37 Summary: “A Gracious Hostess”
When Anna goes to work, her boss and colleagues are annoyed because she has not shown up for two days. Anna is astonished that she has lost two days without knowing how she spent them. She also feels increasingly frustrated by the financial challenges of living in New York. During the night, the ghost breaks glasses and plates, and Anna shouts at it. Her neighbors complain about the noise.
Chapter 38 Summary: “I Am Going to Have to Ask You to Leave”
The next day, Ana receives a stern warning from building management about the strange noises that come from her apartment. Bored and lonely, she phones her mother, who is very cold to her. Her mother now knows about Anna’s termination of pregnancy (either Benny or Nicole has told her) and is also siding with Nicole’s interpretation that Anna purposefully frightened the girls during the vacation.
Anna goes to sit and sketch in the park and draws two portraits of Caterina: One depicts her as a beautiful woman, and the other shows her grotesque appearance as a ghost. A passerby admires the former and purchases the drawing from Anna.
