Her husband was the “terrorist” in the story, she was too afraid to tell anyone because she was afraid no one would believe her or she thought that she would be judged, but all along her friends knew that something was going on, but she still would not open up to them. He was making her loose her jobs, but he was still expecting her to provide her paycheck whenever she was able to hold on to a job. I feel that had she ever opened up to her friends and her co-workers then she would not have felt as depended on her husband as she was. She was poor due to the constant job changing and her husband not working to help out with their living expenses. He was very controlling, she did not know how to drive, and he told her that if she did not know how to ride a bike, then it was not a good thing for her to learn. She then became pregnant and miscarried, which could have been a good thing, because I think that would have just been another reason for him to control her. She finally built her nerves and gained confidence in herself and asked him for a divorce, after hearing him say that was having a lot of bad dreams, making him paranoid and he started locking the door to the bedroom.