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Sick in the mornings? (spoiler)


So was Mary "in the family way" after all by the end of the film? Its been a really long time since I've seen it, but I could've sworn she said she was getting sick in the mornings right at the end of the film.

It was so funny earlier in the movie when she hollered out "I have concieved"!
But then later, she said she wasn't "in the family way after all" (got her period?). So, did she actually get pregnant later or what? I know I had some spotting with both my pregnancies, and didn't have any morning sickness until I was about 4 months along. Could that have been what happened? Or was it simply "hysterical pregnancy" symptoms? Or did she and Red sleep together again before he died? Like I said, its been a really long time since I've seen this movie (I was a kid). I'm totally clueless on this one.

I had never heard the term "in the family way" as a euphamism for "pregnant" until I saw this film. Is it a regional thing, or was it just a commonly used term in the era in which the movie is set?

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It is/was a common expression. There's even a movie:

http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0060395/

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I thought her character was a very sad, lonely mixed up girl carrying a lot of baggage for her age.

She seemed to cling to just about anyone who looked at her. Needy and desperate. Having sex with her was not something I thought was unecessary to put in the film.

She came over as having some kind of mental illness. Clearly men took advantage of that.


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In the book she did have Reds child. If memory serves me correctly its one of the last few paragraphs in the book.

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Oh, thats wonderful! Thanks for passing that along. Boy or girl?

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Did you mean Marlene?

How old was she supposed to be?

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