50 pages 1 hour read

Stephanie Danler

Sweetbitter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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Part 3

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 3: “Winter”

Part 3, Chapter 1 Summary

Tess goes out with the servers, throws up, and has bad sex with Will. She feels that she has irrevocably changed. She stays up for two nights in a row and returns to work late and hungover. At work, Tess can’t find her expensive server clogs. Will tries to talk to her about leaving without saying goodbye and ignoring him. Tess tells Will that she does not want to mislead him and has been feeling out of control lately. Will tells her that her clogs are probably in the garbage after the yearly clean-out.

Tess gets high and drunk, hugging Will in her drug-induced state. A server, Ariel, drunkenly throws a glass at another server, Vivian, for cheating on her. Tess brings Ariel back to her apartment, kissing her in the cab ride to Tess’s apartment.

Part 3, Chapter 2 Summary

Tess is excited for Jake and Simone to return. Tess and Ariel go to a concert and run into Jake there. Jake takes Tess to a diner. Tess asks Jake about his trip home for Thanksgiving, and he tells her that he doesn’t have family and instead goes to Simone’s family home for Thanksgiving.