 In Mr. Crandall s acting class, he asks his students to prepare an individual scene in a character most remote from what they see themselves. Doris, the good girl, decides to prepare a characterization of a prostitute and does some first hand research. In acting and speaking with hookers, she meets up with Tracy, a runaway streetwalker her own age. Tracy has a tough exterior, but deep down is wanting a life better than what her current lot has provided. Doris decides to take Tracy under her wing, takes her into her home, and introduces her to life at the School For the Performing Arts. Tracy is mesmerized by the school and thinks she s found what she wants in life. However there are strict regulations for admission, regulations that Lydia in particular wants to bend to at least allow Tracy to audition early seeing as to her personal situation. The teachers do allow her to audition, but they admit that Tracy has to be better than the best to prove that allowing this bend in the rules was justified. Tracy is not - in fact she s a mediocre performer in every sense, which Doris could not see through her rose colored glasses of what she wanted for Tracy. Finally Doris faces reality and says to Tracy that much of what she achieves in her life is of her own doing and decisions, one of the options that Tracy has is to go home to her family back in Cleveland. Tracy herself finally realizes that although she s scared of what her parents will say if/when she calls them, she would much rather go home than to go back onto the street. Meanwhile, non-driver Mr. Shorofsky wants to learn how to drive because he has the opportunity to purchase his friend s classic car. He talks Elizabeth into teaching him how to drive. Mr. Shorofsky knows nothing about cars or driving, which is not made any easier by Elizabeth s tough teaching methods. When she sees the car, she knows that Mr. Shorofsky will never drive be able to drive the car. It is a right side drive four speed, the skill set with which she was providing him not easily transferable to driving such a car.