She clearly is just looking to move up the corporate ladder, if you know what mean. Remember the first question she asked of that squirrely guy hititng on her (I am horrible with names), “What’s you title?”
Ken Cosgrove.
But I don’t get a “squirrely” vibe off of him. I take it he’s supposed to be the non-squirrely one, the guy who can really make the moves on girls and get his fiction published in the Atlantic.
Pete jokingly referred to “blowing out your ovaries.” Which might be a clumsy way of referring to tuboplasty. A better joking reference might be “blowing out your Fallopian tubes.” It’s rare now & probably wouldn’t be much help to a young lady with no history of pelvic inflammatory disease.
The article refers to microsurgery & other techniques that weren’t available back then. So “mechanical dissection” was probably the standard. Ouch!
I’m positive that baby is Peggy’s (watch me be proven wrong later). I’m thinking that Anita’s baby didn’t make it alive through the 18 months between the seasons. Either it was stillborn or it’s the baby that got concussed and died or something. But now Anita is raising Peggy’s kid while grieving her own. Which has got to suck for her. Plus it explains her confession last week.
When she confessed last week, I thought that she was understandably somewhat pissed. Even without being jealous of Peggy’s job or “freedom” or whatever (which I don’t think she is) there is something grating about someone getting away with something. Even if what they’re getting away with is something that have no desire to do. Even more if that person’s getting away with it means a negative impact on you - and someone else’s kid is often thought of as a negative impact, even for women who really like being mothers. (unless their name is “Jolie”).
If on top of that resentment, she’s also thinking that her kid (whom she wanted, loved, cared for, plus did the “right things” (got married) to get) is dead, while Peggy’s (whom Peggy will barely acknowledge and showed up after what Anita thinks is an affair with a married man) is alive? The confession and the confession breakdown make perfect sense.
I agree that Pete was utterly insensitive about the fertility issues, but was he insensitive for 1962? Or was he being typical for the period? It’s a little hard to judge the characters when we’re doing it from four decades hence.
You could have a point there, amarinth, hadn’t thought about that angle. I was going off Sis’ “the state of NY didn’t think so” comment and assumed Peggy’s baby was put out for adoption, but Sis taking the baby on because her own didn’t make it rings true as well. On the other hand, you’d think Mom would be a little more solicitous of Sis if that were the case. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.