What do you think she is, some kind of a champ or somethin""?" The contest of wills with the Nurse is played out as a struggle to win the other inmates over to his way of thinking and behaving by establishing a political majority, to lead various group insurrections, and to emphasize how hey have been denied their freedom of will:I bet in one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass, she don""t know whether to s--t or wind her wristwatch.But he also realizes that he is dull-witted and inarticulate, and not even capable of accurately counting a wad of bills.As the flashback continues, he tells Ann that they were attracted to each other from heir very first encounter.Jaquith: You know, there""s nothing like these old Boston homes anywhere...you see them standing in a row like bastions, firm, proud, resisting the new, houses turned in upon hemselves hugging their pride.She asks Sanderson to promise o be in contact soon: "Promise now - only two days!" After returning home to her mother, Anna relieves her mother""s anxiety with happy, mysterious hints of wealth to come.