Part II is the story of the dysfunctional relationships and coping mechanisms the children use to deal with their problems.
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Tom reverts to acting like a baby after a brief stint wanting to be a girl. He acts this way to become as dependent as possible on Julie and attract all of the attention he can from her. Sue journals and reads obsessively while developing the same close emotional friendship with Julie that Julie had with Mother. Jack acts out, takes poor care of himself hygienically and becomes increasingly emotionally isolated.
His attraction to Julie increases and he finds himself jealous of the other emotional bonds in the family. Julie, however, appears the most dysfunctional.
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She develops a strange romantic relationship with a man much older than she is, Derek. She will not let Derek touch her but loves spending time with him and she will not connect with him emotionally or tell him about Mother. Jack is intimidated by Derek and dislikes him and Julie and Jack have conflicts about it. However, it later becomes clear as Derek starts to poke around the house and ask probing questions about the cellar and the trunk that Julie is not as interested in him as she appears.
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Instead, she reciprocates Jack's attraction to her. The book climaxes as she becomes sexually intimate with Jack. When Derek walks in he is horrified and runs down to the basement to break open the concrete hiding Mother. Then he reports the family to the authorities.
As the authorities arrive, Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom are all sitting on the bed, talking, for the first time, about their fond memories of Mother. Only on the last page does the dysfunction begin to end and the real grieving process begins. Read more from the Study Guide. Browse all BookRags Study Guides.
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