He was completely at sea. Why was she so sneering, so enraged? She was a minimum wage, no-skills twit when he found her. She had nothing, nothing but a B.A. in Women's Studies and the promise of a decent head of hair if she stopped shaving her head. He had taken her away from her job at Barnes & Noble, taken her away from those Saturday nights hanging out at Tres Hombres with her equally bitter girl friends. She'd been happy to get into his car, happy to move into his house, happy that his parents had investments in major corporations with dividends to share. And now, now she was turning on him.... was it because of .... the baby?
She knew he knew. He was only trying to force her into the same old degrading patterns because she was going to have his child. As she spread her hands across her ever-growing stomach, she was determined to no longer allow him to treat her this way. She was, after all, the product of one of the best liberal colleges in the Northeast. She had given up everything - her beautiful shaved scalp, her fulfilling job in an intellectually stimulating work enviroment, her nicely furnished one room studio flat - everything she had, she had given it up for him. And this - this was how he repayed her? With this reinforcement of her negative value as a woman? She would not stand for it. Her conscience would not allow her to.