It is acts of generosity like this that prove to Jane that Ms. Yu is not a bad person, as Reagan insists. Reagan despises Ms. Yu for lying to them at Golden Oaks, for taking away Jane’s bonus, and for her manipulativeness—but could Ms. Yu have done anything differently without losing her job? Jane does not believe people are as free as Reagan thinks they are. Sometimes a person has no choice but hard choices, like the one Jane made to be here, living without true privacy among strangers.