“You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded./ I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it.”
She grow up moving a lot from different apartment that were not very nice. With her parents always saying it would get better she hopes and dreams it will. It isn’t until someone else from outside the family puts in her brain that where she lives isn’t very nice that she feels the need to get out. She wants to get a real house and is determined to do so. But what is a real house? To her since she grew up with that dream, a real house is one with stair and many bed and bathrooms and a yard with trees.
“She likes looking at the walls, at how neatly their corners meet, the linoleum roses on the floor, the ceiling smooth as wedding cake.”
Sally grew up in a bad family where she never could really find home, because she disliked it so much, she didn’t feel comfortable there. She marries quickly to find a sense of comfort she never had. She is kept on a very tight leash in her marriage, but for her it is ok because she as the home she never had before that is clean and has what she likes. It is a false sense of security that she never had so she overcompensates for it.
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