Elly is thought-bubbling all the things that are serious considerations for real women in the real world who are not her- for Elly, having no clothes and no crib means going shopping, but she wants us to believe it's a crisis that she doesn't have stuff she can buy in fifteen minutes months before the baby is due to be born. Having "no room" is solved by taking some of Elizabeth's. A real woman might be thinking about the cost of daycare, or making ends meet and getting the bills paid while also cutting back on hours; Elly is thinking about the loss of her fake status job and "getting tied down again" like the selfish, self-important miserable little twat she is. John at least is living in the real world - he's well aware that a new baby will be much more Business As Usual than a major change to Elly's life. He probably also knows Elly well enough to realize that all of her thoughts are utter nonsense about what a disaster a new baby will be for HER.
If she would take stock of objective reality, Elly would end up facing something that goes against everything she's ever believed about the world: she's got it damn good and always has.
She wants so desperately to believe that she's a contributor to the household finances and that her work outside the house has real value and could have even more if the world were not constantly sabotaging her with children and ironing and vacuuming and cooking. If I were John or an acquaintance of Elly's I'd be much more convinced that Elly is secretly overjoyed at being pregnant because it gives her another deferment from being in the real world which does not hold regular ticker-tape parades for people who participate in the job market.
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Elly is thought-bubbling all the things that are serious considerations for real women in the real world who are not her- for Elly, having no clothes and no crib means going shopping, but she wants us to believe it's a crisis that she doesn't have stuff she can buy in fifteen minutes months before the baby is due to be born. Having "no room" is solved by taking some of Elizabeth's. A real woman might be thinking about the cost of daycare, or making ends meet and getting the bills paid while also cutting back on hours; Elly is thinking about the loss of her fake status job and "getting tied down again" like the selfish, self-important miserable little twat she is. John at least is living in the real world - he's well aware that a new baby will be much more Business As Usual than a major change to Elly's life. He probably also knows Elly well enough to realize that all of her thoughts are utter nonsense about what a disaster a new baby will be for HER.
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If she would take stock of objective reality, Elly would end up facing something that goes against everything she's ever believed about the world: she's got it damn good and always has.
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She wants so desperately to believe that she's a contributor to the household finances and that her work outside the house has real value and could have even more if the world were not constantly sabotaging her with children and ironing and vacuuming and cooking. If I were John or an acquaintance of Elly's I'd be much more convinced that Elly is secretly overjoyed at being pregnant because it gives her another deferment from being in the real world which does not hold regular ticker-tape parades for people who participate in the job market.
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When Black Friday comes, stupid strip speak for stupid self.
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