Then when her husband, Leroy, comes home it is hard for her to adjust with him being around. She is loosing her freedom of living alone and she wishes that he is would leave. She tries to escape her husband by taking classes in college, but that doesn't work. In the end she leaves him because he "won't leave [her] alone" ( 1458). She feels bothered by her husband. Their marriage has dramatically changed over the years.
I do not believe this story has anything to do with feminism, Norma Jean is just going through a hard time and a big change getting to know her husband again, and letting go of the way she lived before he came home. Leroy doesn't have very much control over her, she still does what she wants. It is not like she is treated unequally by Leroy for being a women.
I agree with you because you have a very good argument, but I also thought of it as feminist. I believe that Norma Jean now feels like she is the "man" in the relationship. She gets up and goes to work and now is taking classes to further her education and get a better job since her husband stays at home all day like most women are supposed to.
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