Dr. Grossman urges Bunny to talk it over with her husband. “All we want is for you to get well,” he says. “And you want to get well, don’t you?”
But Bunny can’t say for sure if she wants to get well. To get well will take effort, so much effort, and she is weary. And what if she does try, tries her very best, and fails nonetheless? To try and to fail is all too familiar to her. All her life, she has tried and tried, and now she is tired, dog-tired, of trying.