Iris hands him an unmailed letter she wrote him, and Stanley surprises her by reading it aloud nearly perfectly. Unwilling to give up on Iris because she never gave up on him, Stanley finally goes to see her. This threatens their budding relationship further. Stanley and Iris finally decide to consummate their relationship, but Iris is still clinging to her late husband's memory. The two of them begin to grow close again. He agrees to start reading again with Iris, and in time learns to write short sentences. Iris is impressed by the device and Stanley says a nearby company was also and even offered him a job. Stanley, who invents things as a hobby, is at work on an elaborate cake cooling machine he designed that can potentially outperform similar commercial equipment. Later, Iris visits a discouraged Stanley at his garage residence to try to get him to resume his lessons. Iris tests Stanley's developing reading skills by making a map for him to use to meet her at a nearby street corner, but Stanley gets hopelessly lost. During one of these reading exercises, Stanley confides in her that he has wanted to be intimate with her since they first met, but Iris is hesitant. Iris agrees and starts giving him basic reading lessons, and he gradually grows close to her and her family. He explains that his traveling-salesman father moved him between dozens of schools all over the country when Stanley was a boy, resulting in his developing no reading or writing skills from this lack of educational stability. Broken by these events, Stanley asks Iris if she could teach him to read. He is also forced to put his elderly father (who lived with him) in a shabby retirement home, where the old man dies after only a few weeks. Unable to get steady work afterwards, Stanley moves into a garage to live. When she innocently mentions this to Stanley's boss, Stanley is fired the next day over food safety and lawsuit concerns. Witnessing his inability to pick out a specific medication, Iris finally realizes the truth: Stanley is illiterate. But as their friendship develops, she notices peculiarities about Stanley. Iris makes the acquaintance of Stanley Cox, a cook in the bakery's canteen, when he comes to her aid after her purse is snatched on a bus. With money already tight for the family, Kelly learns she is pregnant, making matters worse. She lives from paycheck to paycheck as she raises her two children, Kelly and Richard. Iris King, a widow still grieving 8 months after losing her husband, lives in a high-crime area in Connecticut and works in a baking factory.
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