As he shops, he thinks of how bored he is with his life. He decides he wants to break up with Hagar and that a gift would be insulting to her. He decides to give her money instead. Milkman has been with Hagar now more than twelve years. Over the years as Hagar became too available the attraction left, she has become something like the third beer, so expected, and so unlonged for as to be bland and tasteless. .
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Hagar is thirty-six now, Milkman lost interest in her already, and she began to pout about his lack of attention, her self-esteem began to dwindle. Milkman goes to the office and writes Hagar a good-bye note, which ends with a "thank you" for all she had done for him. The words of thanks "sent Hagar spinning into a bright blue place where the air was thin and it was silent all the time, and where people spoke in whispers or did not make sound at all". Ever since then every new moon, Hagar looks for a weapon and comes after him, and has been coming for him every month. Milkman life has been saved from deaths because Hagar is clumsy in her homicidal rages. It was not really that note that drove her crazy, but it was seeing Milkman at Mary's bar with a woman from the Honore crowd. This woman had silky copper-colored hair and gray eyes Hagar moves through life "finding peace nowhere and in nothing". She cannot think of anything except "the mouth Milkman was not kissing, the feet that were not running toward him, the eye that no longer beheld him, the hands that were not touching him". She stalks him because any contact with him is better than none. The site of Milkman with the female is a sign of when Hagar begins to build her imaginary self-picture of beastliness.
Last time, Milkman was in Guitar's house hiding because he knew that, that night Hagar was coming for him. The door was locked to Guitar's home so Hagar breaks the glass and opens the latch. Milkman is lying on the bed with his arm over is eyes.