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.