The cashier in the Service Department of Dwayne Hoover’s Pontiac dealership. Gloria has a hysterectomy at the young age of twenty-five after a “botched abortion.” She is terribly embittered and unhappy, and since she doesn’t “have nerve enough to commit suicide,” she sarcastically does “anything anybody says—in the service of mankind.” Gloria serves as a cautionary tale for what happens when a woman’s reproductive rights and freedoms are limited or taken away.