An intriguing curiosity: Two Serious Women

Now I don't know of Jane Bowles's novel Two Serious Women (ca 1943?) is artfully weird of just out of control. We leave the Copperfields in Panama, as Mr. C heads off on a boat and leaving wife alone to fend for herself - although she's pretty happy palling around with the prostitutes of Colon (and she's a prim and proper NY suburban society woman, hm) and jump back to the other ongoing plot in the novel, which we'd abandoned 100 pages back or so: Mrs. Goering is living in her small and rundown house on an island somewhere near NYC (the geography is extremely difficult to parse), trying to live on a shoestring (she's also a wealth NY society woman), along w/ her "companion" whom she doesn't seem to like or need in any way and the sponger Arthur, who's just plopped himself into their lives and sleeps every night fully clothed on the living-room couch (there are only 2 bedrooms). He gets in a tiff with the companion and throws a bottle at her, which smashes on her forehead. After than, Mrs. G goes off on a jaunt of her own, a train ride during which her behavior is odd to say the least (talking to strangers, upbraiding some children, falling face-first in the aisle and landing on her chin ... ) and then a ferry ride to some little town where she hangs out in a bar and goes home with a man who approaches her - only to rebuff his advances and then listen, at length, to his own sad story of a relationship he had with an armless, legless circus performer. Enough! This whole novel has the structure, if you can call it that, of an extended dream sequence - but it's not written in a dream-like style, the prose is quite ordinary and even-handed, as if this is a realistic narrative about the 2 serious women of the title. So I at times am thinking this is just an improv - Bowles can write well and she lets the narrative, and her imagination, take her and us where it will, without any thought of structure and faithfulness to reality - you really can't believe the behavior of these characters for more than a second - and certainly without any revisions or editing: what is the relationship between these two narratives? Will there be any kind of arc to either story, any conclusion? As noted in previous post there may be some echoes of her own life - husband Paul Bowles was an inveterate traveler and 3rd-world adventurer, maybe a bit like Mr. Copperfield in Panama, although her characters are not in the least the literary, intellectual, beat/hipsters among who she and husband lived and worked. In short - this novel is an intriguing curiosity but it's not hard to see why, without other novels on which to build a particular artist's world view, it and she have been largely forgotten.