Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination and rape.

Sade is late to English, and Persephone is just finishing her Macbeth presentation. Francis Webber goes next, and Sade realizes that her redheaded discussion companion is related to the headmaster. Francis’s presentation is full of “misogynistic dribble” as he refers to Lady Macbeth as “fugly” and “totally psycho.” When Mr. Michaelides points out how different his reading was from Persephone’s, Francis claims that “Persephone [is] mad because she scares all her potential boyfriends away with her charming personality” (85). Persephone tells Francis she is a lesbian and then gives him the middle finger. Looking uncomfortable, Mr. Michaelides calls on Sade, who forgot to finish her presentation. However, she has studied the play extensively and argues that Lady Macbeth is a villain and a “cautionary tale” of what happens to women who “disrupt the patriarchy” (87).

At lunch, Sade tells Baz about the music box. He has no idea where it could have come from, and Sade sees Baz is upset by the mounting evidence that Elizabeth was keeping secrets. When the girls of the Unholy Trinity enter the cafeteria, he urges her to sit with them.