Better to call the fury “The Thing.” It is the illness talking. It is allowed if we call it a possession—a spinning head. When she uses nasty language, when she throws a scene. Where is it supposed to go? All of this fury? A woman's anger: it must be contained, repressed, diffused. Maybe Emma B. is pissed off. So instead of destroying something (not permissible) she sets off to systematically self-destruct. Or to try to live intensely. Or perhaps those are the same things. Maybe these women were furious. (She is mad, yes, but she is also angry.)
