Blog Post 3 - The Room

Katherine is making choices that the world wouldn't necessarily consider "moral," but based on the incident that happened to her and her husband 9 years ago, it is difficult to determine which area of her psyche is causing her to.  It would be easy to just say that her affair happens because she acts upon her innermost passions and desires for this other man, but she thoughtfully decides to sleep with him.  Although Katherine's ego might be slightly altered due to her husband being accused of murdering a woman that he was having some sort of nonsexual affair with, I believe that she still knows that what she is doing was wrong.  The reason she has the affair is the first place is because she's curious about what it felt like to deceive another person, and also curious about how Phair felt 9 years ago.  Katherine acts upon the id, which is curious about deceiving another person, despite the potential consequences and moral conflicts.

It is very obvious that Katherine is trying to repress the murder accusation from the moment she finds out about it.  She lies for him so the cops will leave and he won't get in trouble, but then she never asks Phair what actually happened.  They never bring it up again, and they barely talk at all for that matter.  Their marriage is now based on lies and silence.  It is as if she would rather not know at all, but still 9 years later that incident is affecting the choices she is making.  She has an affair with another man because she wants to experience what Phair had felt all those years ago, which means she has never truly been able to let it go.