However, unknown to most, she had had an affair with another man even after having had children with the man she was married to, and then had more children with the man she was married to. This she felt was in no way dishonoring Anse but was instead doing something that was only for her. As she said here, “I would be I; I would let him be the shape and the echo of his word. ...Then I found that I had Jewel.”(174-175). She had this belief that she had fulfilled her duty as a wife and that she would now do something that was of her own will and that this child that she had would be something in the world that was not just of her. This both betrayed the family as a whole and honored her own
However, unknown to most, she had had an affair with another man even after having had children with the man she was married to, and then had more children with the man she was married to. This she felt was in no way dishonoring Anse but was instead doing something that was only for her. As she said here, “I would be I; I would let him be the shape and the echo of his word. ...Then I found that I had Jewel.”(174-175). She had this belief that she had fulfilled her duty as a wife and that she would now do something that was of her own will and that this child that she had would be something in the world that was not just of her. This both betrayed the family as a whole and honored her own