ahead of her, she thought theatrically, I will never see Tony any more; she is gone, and knew that, theatrical or not, it was true. She had defeated her own enemy, she thought, and she would never be required to fight again, and she put her feet down tiredly in the mud and thought, What did I do wrong?
Shirley Jackson's portrayal of the intricate mind of Natalie Waite was so confusing and took multiple readings of one page to even gauge what was happening.
