VLVL Prairie and DL

[Terrance]

> 
> In the passage at the top of 101, DL's speech includes the phrases "playin'
> make-believe", "lying, turning each other in" etc. Are you really trying to
> suggest that this is DL avoiding the issue? Is this the speech of someone
> stalling for time while racking her brains to think of a way to change the
> subject?

Of course not. DL wants to tell her story. Like everyone else in this
book she's gonna get a turn at spinning the yarn too. 

1. Why does she need to tell it? 

2. Why does Prairie (not the reader, she is a character in the novel)
need to hear it?