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"her wide hips and low butt, together with her breasts which filled her sweatshirt --her figure gave her the overbuilt, road-hugging grace of an early '70s Corvette

Her hair hung in black curlicues over the navy sweatshirt...

“Have you ever, you know--" "Screwed guys? Sure. In high school I was with the jazz band director. He was married."

..when Margot was telling him that she'd figured out she liked sleeping with women, He said : "I don't think there's any reason to worry, honey. This is very common at your age.”

...Margot...

The lesbian, sax player, Dan's inconditional friend.. She seems to be quite attractive and she is mentioned quite often throughout several excerpts [Boutique Mademoiselle, Window Glass].
When he refers to Margot in Window Glass, he compares her life with his: “middle-class Jewish... Hers [parents] had made it all the way from Jersey City to a dental practice in Massachusetts, with a two-car garage and a boat in the driveway”.

The way Dan describes Margot, lead the reader to imagine a voluptuous woman with an extremely high sex-appeal. In Boutique Mademoiselle, Dan says: “Margot's figure--her wide hips and low butt, together with her breasts which filled her sweatshirt a few inches closer than I ever expected to her suddenly narrow waist--her figure gave her the overbuilt, road-hugging grace of an early '70s Corvette. Especially the '72 Stingray coupe”.

In Window Glass he also describes her features: “Her hair hung in black curlicues over the navy sweatshirt she wore three days out of four. When she looked up from the cutting board she lifted her thick eyebrow--her monobrow Beck called it--and her eyes drew mine”
Her character is also mentioned in Window Glass: “She looked a whole epoch more maure, the way the senior girls at Arlington High did when I was in ninth grade.”
Another trace of her character is described as follows: “She did what she wanted to do, she thought about things I'd never heard of, and still she listened to me attentively, which made me smarter than I was. She had quick hands for cooking and touching. She could walk up to wherever I stood and fit herself against me like a cat. She loved women and men.”

When the reader finds out Margot is a lesbian, thanks to the conversation between her and Dan in Window Glass, Dan states: “Have you ever, you know--" "Screwed guys? Sure. In high school I was with the jazz band director. He was married." I was immediately granted a picture of a dark, popular, sixteen-year-old Margot in faded cords and untucked flannel shirts. She spent all her time with the boys in the jazz band and with the band director. She had breasts, and she was brilliant at trigonometry... I saw the young Margot at once, pretty and efficient, making decisions that most grown people can't handle. In the afternoon she did math, had sex, played sax. She always played sax.”

Margot’s obsession with the sax, is reflected in Window Glass through Beck: “Beck, Margot, and Zubir played together all fall. They needed a drummer, and the trio, christened The Tone Wizards in time for the first of their Thursday gigs at the Tahonga, would have been a quartet. Instead they stayed a threesome, Beck played with his West Indian big band, and Margot and Zubir started gigging as a duet at Le Cambridge and King Op‚ra Twenty One. Everyone grew artistically and got paid once in a while.”

Margot, when talking about her sexual orientation, states: “What bothers her [Bou] is that I came out to my parents and she hasn't and won't. She's competitive about everything."
Unlike Dan’s father and step-mother Brenda, Margot had quite a good experience when she “came out of the closet”: “her dad was so proud of her he could hardly bear to let her explain what she'd accomplished last. He was always too busy trying to repeat the success story to Margot's mom. That was true, even on Thanksgiving of her first year at Yale, when Margot was telling him, while she helped cook, that she'd figured out she liked sleeping with women. Bobby was about to say to Miriam, That's our girl. Instead he turned to Margot, offered her a spoonful of cranberry sauce, and said, I don't think there's any reason to worry, honey. This is very common at your age.”