How do laura's interactions with her husband reveal the
conflict she experiences?
read the excerpt from "daughter of invention".
but laura had gotten used to the life here. she did not
want to go back to the old country where, de la torre or
not, she was only a wife and a mother and a failed one at
that, since she had never provided the required son).
better an independent nobody than a high-class
houseslave. she did not come straight out anlasdisagree
with her husband's plans. instead, she fussed with him
about reading the papers in bed, soiling their sheets with
those poorly printed, foreign tabloids. "the times is not
that bad! " she'd claim if her husband tried to humor her by
saying they shared the same dirty habit.
she becomes an independent nobody and decides to
reject her role as a high-class housewife and mother
she reads the newspapers with her husband to keep up
on dominican politics and plans a return to their
homeland.
instead of getting used to her new life in america, she
secretly hopes that her husband will return the family to
the dominican republic
instead of openly disagreeing with her husband's desire
to return to the dominican republic, she criticizes the
foreign papers he reads.
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