A phsycological question for the BEST to answer?

Question

Ok, so let's say the heroine's name is "Kathy." She was once a poor girl, but when her well-bred Aunt took her in, Kathy became a lady. However, she falls in love with the one man her religious and well-bred Aunt hates--a gypsy man. When the gypsy propose that they run away together, what is it that makes Kathy reject the offer, no matter how much she loved the guy??? What is it that pulls her away from a free life?? What is it that imprisons Kathy to her Aunt??

Be creative!!
10 points for the best answer!!

Answer 1

Hmm I hope you are going somewhere with this.... :)

Kathy's love for the gypsy could be a response to the life she once lived and has now left behind. It is something she still identifies with, a gypsy may have more in common with her previous existence and so called 'freedom'.
However, the aunt's efforts after taking her in could have also created some long term changes to Kathy's personality and character. She began to see the world in a different light. A world she may have much preferred.
Under her aunt's religious and well bred upbringing, Kathy may have grown practical and begun thinking logically.
What does a gypsy have to offer her - love, freedom, excitement - that she cannot find in her present world for herself with family support (not to mention perhaps her aunt's financial support as well)?

So, Kathy stops at the door and does not follow her heart. Instead, she chooses to follow her head.

Answer 2

I would say that kathy, coming from an under privilaged up bringing, associated poverty with pain because she was teased and rejected by almost all of her peers. This left her with a soul deep wound. Kathy was, and always has been beautiful on the inside but lacked the material, superficial things that society associates with success and worthyness. So Kathy never got to share all the beauty that she possesed with anyone.

Until one day her aunt takes her in after her parents get run over by a mule cart. Her aunt takes her shopping and gets her some sweet outfits, takes her to the beauty salon for facials, she gives her a complete make over. Now men are stumbling over one another just to get close to her. But she sees that they have no depth, no soul. And then one day she meets a man who has a sould as deep as the ocean and a heart just as big, be he is just a poor Gypsy. She is drawn to him because they understand one another sooo well, but resists. Her new life, while shallow brings a certain level of comfort. She finally feels accepted by society. The thought of being rejected by society again triggers all the painful memories of her up bringing and so she denys her heart. She has now become a prisoner of her own mind. But just think about it. if she didn't use her memories, emotions, asociations, attentions or intentions what would it all mean anyway? She then could break free of the prison of public opinion and be free to be with her lover.

Answer 3

This question will put me to Level 3 anyway so I'm not after the points but thanks for the offer anyway.

Asnwer:
She was once a poor girl. She knew how hard life was then. Living with her well-bred aunt will rather give her more options, considering that running away with the gypsy man will more possibly bring her back to poor living. Also, as her aunt is religious. She may have become religious, too, which is not very impossible, and she thought that maintaining her ties with her aunt will save her from committing a sin.

Answer 4

sounds like the poor gilr to rich prima donna story
she was poor and she learned that poor guys can not give her the life style she has with her aunt and she is alway going to look for someone that can equal that level of life style or better it
abd also the Aunt and Kathy had the gypsy's golden earring apraised but they turned out to be electriplated plastic
they both agreed he was a loser.
and how did she keep kathy there? ah yes!!
her Aunt keep a 10 inch solid gold dildoe in her dresser that she would work kathy over every night with .
so Kathy asks for it every night hopeing that she gets her hands on the gold but alway falls short from that and lands somewhere else LOL ok that is my story and I am stuck with it hahaha

Answer 5

Because Kathy once was poor, she knows what it's like. She may have had friends who suffered and died because of poverty. That's not what she wants for her children, and that would be likely if she ran away with the gypsy. Her Aunt would probably emphasize this fact every time they discuss (argue) about it, "You don't want your children to grow up in same conditions as poor cousin Timmy, hungry for all of his life and end up dead in the ditch, right?"

So, she could bear to be poor, but she wants to have children, and doesn't want them to suffer.

Answer 6

Kathy needs to know what is life without her Aunt
She'll take that risk
She'll follow her dream

Answer 7

Kathy is not the first person who sells freedom for security. Fear of change and the unknown is what imprisons her. It's sad actually because millions are as imprisoned as her.

Answer 8

Love - are she dashed by the man or is it loove?
Have poverty monkey eaten her soo bad before she wont take a roadlife before the safe houselife.
-Probably.
"the grub first" the poem goes by Brecht.
The sad part is she perhaps hide in the 'religion' as the old aunt and its sold as love/life at widow-point.
And have another cookie.

hopeful the 'horror sinful' side of her that turned moist over the traveling man will ignite her over later when the old bat is gone.

Answer 9

Because only her granny knows Kathys real father?

Answer 10

because kathy possess the UTANG NA LOOB term in filipino. or in laymans term, owe something that no money could pay it.