d had lovers while she had been married (Howard 139). Her view toward sex was that she would not have sexual intercourse with her husbands unless she received money. She felt that a man must pay his debt to his wife; the sexual bonds in marriage are a contractual obligation involving sustained boil (Cigman 5 ). She married five times during all of her marriages she married in terms of lust instead of true love. She confessed to a great desire to be loved no matter what, weather she was married or unmarried. Not only did she have a desire to be loved she had a passion for dominating her husbands. Her first three husbands where good, old and rich. In her fourth marriage he irritated her by having a paramour but she evened scores with him. The wife was not at all in love of none of her husbands until she fell in love with her fifth husband. This time the husband treated her the way she should have been treated a long time ago. He talked bad about her calling her names and disrespecting her. He told her stories about loose woman and how they got what they wanted in their husbands. He beat, and pushed her around. Although he did this to her he was her favorite husband of all. She felt that she had to gain back her mastery of her lover. He was running the show and the wife did not like it at all. The difference between her husbands before was that it was easy for her to gain dominance and mastery over them. The fifth one she had to win it back. The only way she was able to win master over him was to kill him. So she kills hem and takes over. She gets back her house & property in this action. She quote’s “ We came to a agreement between ourselves. He gave me the bridle entirely in my hand by my still complete sovereignty, and when he said “My own true wife, do as you please all the rest of you life, supervise your own honor and my estate as well After that day we never had an argument ( Hopper, 435). ...
