Blog post #3/ question 3

The room is about a women named Katherine who finds herself having an affair with a man she meets at a party. The reason for this affair is due to the fact that 9 years earlier her husband Phair also had an affair with a women that later was found dead because someone had suffocated her. In the first realization she says, “The room was finished with. This afternoon, she had felt that, even if it had not been said” (702). This line could be explained by using the id/ego/superego model because the id in her has had the affair and the ego which is shown in this line states that she came to the understand that she could no longer keep going with the affair and that she had to move on with her life and make a decision in terms of her marriage. I think that the superego is her knowing that having the affair was not right and it would ultimately lead her nowhere. In the second realization she also states,

 “It wouldn’t be a shock, nor even a surprise. He expected no more of her than what she’d given him, and she would choose her moment to say that she must go. He would understand; she would not have to tell him. The best that love could do was not enough, and he would know that also” (702)." This i believe parallels with the idea of the "return of the repressed" because in this line she finally makes the decision to leave her husband because for 9 years she had repressed the memory of her husband having an affair and she finally realized that she couldn't do it anymore. Sure she still might have had a little love for him but at the end the damage was done and the marriage was broken.