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Over time, the narrator cannot bear to be away from the dog.

She devises ways to care for Apollo, though a vet tells her that he is unlikely to live much longer. Re-reading a book about the love between a dog and a man, the narrator sees parallels between the text and her friend’s life. He was found in a park by her dead friend and his old owner could not be found. She decides that Apollo needs to fall in love with her instead of his dead owner, much the way she is trying to fall out of love with the dead man who was her former teacher and an unceasing presence in her life.Īpollo attracts a lot of attention around the neighborhood, and the narrator struggles to find a new home for him. Once in the narrator’s apartment, Apollo mostly ignores her, but, for the narrator, having the dog is like having a small part of her friend with her, back from the dead. The dog has been pining for its dead owner, and though dogs are not permitted in the narrator’s apartment block, the narrator accepts. Wife Three asks the narrator to take care of the dog the friend recently adopted, an aging Great Dane named Apollo. After the funeral, she meets the friend’s third wife in a café. The suicide of a close friend, a male writer and mentor, is causing the narrator to miss her own deadlines.