Character Analysis
June is Connie's boring older sister. Connie's mother is always comparing the two, with Connie inevitably ending up short:
[Her] sister was so plain and chunky and steady that Connie had to hear her praised all the time – by her mother and her mother's sisters. (3)
June offers up another model of womanhood: if her mother is the model of domesticity, June is the professional woman. She works at Connie's high school and spends of her time with female friends, suggesting (in the socially conservative mid-sixties) a state of arrested development and a sexless, joyless existence. This is clearly not the kind of life that Connie aspires to.