She leaves the pet store “thinking about how the preacher probably wouldn’t like it very much that I was working for a criminal” (84). Opal sweeps and dusts the whole pet store, and when she is done, Otis thanks her. She asks about it but he changes the subject and tells her to start working. He then confides in Opal that he has spent time in jail.
Otis tells her that he feels “sorry for them being locked up all the time,” as he knows what it is like to be locked up (82). He attempts to justify his behavior to Opal, who asks if they escaped from their cages. When all the animals have been caged, Opal sees that Otis won't look up from his boots. It is only when Otis begins playing again that they calm down: “Winn-Dixie was lying on the floor, blinking his eyes and smiling to himself and sneezing every now and then, and the mice and gerbils and the rabbits and the lizard and the snakes that we hadn’t caught yet got quiet and sat still, and I picked them up one by one and put them back in their cages” (82). All of the animals scatter and Otis and Opal frantically attempt to gather them and get them in their cages. When Gertrude catches sight of Winn-Dixie, she calls out “dog” and lands on his head, which causes Otis to stop playing and break the spell. The animals are still, transfixed by Otis’s lovely guitar playing. They find Otis standing in the middle of a circle of uncaged animals. Although the "closed" sign is in place, the door is unlocked, so Opal and Winn-Dixie enter. Winn-Dixie and Opal arrive at Gertrude’s Pet Store early on her first day of work. As the storm rages on, Opal realizes that she will not be able to help Winn-Dixie with his fear of storms, so she and the preacher just sit and watch “him run back and forth, all terrorized and panting” (76).
#WINN DIXIE PATHOLOGICAL FEAR CRACK#
As the preacher stands in his doorway, confused, Winn-Dixie, propelled by another crack of lightning, barrels into him and topples him over. Almost immediately after, he is off the preacher’s bed and again running through the trailer. When she opens the door, he runs into the preacher’s room and hops on his bed.
Winn-Dixie is so afraid of the thunder and lightning that he wakes up Opal by whining and beating his head against her bedroom door. The night Opal meets Gloria Dump, there is a thunderstorm.
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