Sabine begins to realize the rippling social and ecological effects of her smallest choices: an exhilarating but exhausting process, during which she loses her two best friends.
The measure was defeated, Paltrow said, "because its implication was obvious: once the woman becomes pregnant, she has a second-class status in which she loses virtually every constitutional right, including a right to medical privacy".
Singh has a recurring nightmare in the novel, brought on by anti-malaria pills, in which she loses hold of his hand in a crowd and wakes up screaming.
If the human swell in which she loses and finds herself is a bit more Fellini-esque than the thousands pouring through the turnstiles of the baseball stadium, it is no less affecting.
But, in 1933, after censors banned the movie in several big cities, Warner Bros., which produced it, did some quick reshooting and forced a punitive ending on Lily, in which she loses everything.
Moreover, the woman does not resist the process through which she loses her self-worth because "she arrives at her sense of incompetence and estrangement…on the basis of reasons that are valued by a scientific establishment which is socially validated and which she trusts" (Benson 1994, 657).
