- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Lily’s roommate in Chicago, Minnie Hagan, is killed unexpectedly when her hair gets caught in a piece of machinery at the factory in which she works. Minnie’s story would not have been altogether uncommon at the time; in the early twentieth century many women flocked to work in factories where the conditions were often extremely dangerous. Lily is deeply shaken by Minnie’s death, and her subsequent reflections upon the unpredictability of life are in keeping with the novel’s exploration of fate and self-reliance; as she has done throughout her life, Lily accepts that many things are out of her control…