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On her way out of her Bucktown apartment, a young woman with long straight hair and model-high cheekbones checks herself out in the mirror. The checking turns to looking, then staring, and now her face crumbles and she sobs. How awful! She must feel terrible. But wait. Suddenly she stops sobbing. All business, she widens her eyes, stretches her mouth into an “o,” and makes octave-crossing vocalizations. Aha. It’s OK. She’s not really sad at all—she’s just an actress.
Miss Girl’s adventures are basically about the same thing Lewis says his relationship with Sayre was about: the struggle to maintain intimacy while pursuing big ambitions. She auditions, roughouses and dances with her beau, fails to get him to open up (though about what, I’m not sure), and–in one cool rehearsal scene—puts a very sexy spin on a speech from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
