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 house slave. she did not come straight out and disagree 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.

how do laura’s interactions with her husband reveal the conflict she experiences?

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

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning