Lola in the Mirror

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of addiction, graphic violence, death by suicide, and sexual harassment.

The sketch portrays four shirtless young men with wolf heads. The museum label indicates that they are “wealthy and foolish university students” who angered the artist (156).

After leaving Ursula’s house, Lola delivers to her next customers—four male university students—at a hotel. Approaching their door, Lola unties her boot so she has access to her knife. A redhead answers the door, and the others are shirtless with bruises and scratches all over their bodies. Beer bottles litter the room. Red, as she calls the first boy, closes the door and offers her money for the drugs.

They tell her to stay, and when Lola refuses, Red insinuates that he will not let her leave. Lola knows the Tyrannosaurus Waltz will begin when he whispers a threat to her. Cursing her shoelaces, she leans down to grab her knife. The boys make lewd comments but stop laughing when her knife slides against Red’s throat. Suddenly, he seems young and scared, especially when she threatens Flora Box’s retribution. Ranting, Lola reveals that a monster kills one woman in Australia every week, and she declares that a woman does not know what she is capable of until she does it.