Park
- And now we're back to that line from our long-ago preface, full circle: "He'd stopped trying to bring her back" (57.1).
- Tons of little things remind him of Eleanor still, but he's having trouble remembering her in sharp detail now.
- He stops by Eleanor's house one more time, and Richie pulls up in his truck and gets out, completely drunk. Richie shouts "Who are you?" at Park. "I want to kill you," Park thinks, "and I should" (57.16).
- Richie falls down, and Park thinks again that someone should kill him. He looks at his own new steel-toed Doc boots, and he hates Richie "more than he thought it was possible to hate someone" (57.25).
- But he just kicks the ground in front of Richie, and Richie gets a mouthful of mud, and stays on the ground. Then Park walks home.
Eleanor
- Park's letters stop arriving. Eleanor still thinks about reading all the ones he's sent, but she doesn't.