Blog 3 - Question 2 - Brandon Arnold

In the story Katherine is at a party where she meets the man she will ultimately have an affair with.  They are dancing , flirting with each other, and learning about one another as two people do when they are trying to find out if they are interested in someone. The conversation starts to get personal, and during the man’s attempt to court her, he starts to talk about how his marriage is on the rocks, and how they are splitting up. Then the conversation turns to Katherine. Katherine’s husband had cheated on her 9 years earlier with a woman he was also accused of murdering. Since then, Katherine has been trying to suppress and forget about that time in her life, but the combination of her having a few drinks, this guy opening up to her, and Katherine being asked the right question triggers the return of the repressed memory of her husband’s affair and murder and she tells the man about the woman and how her husband was accused of murdering her. When Katherine is getting dressed after she has the affair with the guy she just meet, the return of the repressed is then further triggered, because she feels as though she is deceiving her husband, and it makes her think of Phair. “What it had felt like for Phair”, she said.  In reference to how her husband felt after he had cheated on her 9 years earlier, the memories further began to return. The man continues to press the matter throughout the story and Katherine is faced with confronting her problems. Katherine tried to suppress these memories by never talking about it to anyone which is revealed in the story when it says," she had never, to anyone else, told anything at all, or talked about what had happened to people who had knew.