His blonde, young and vivacious American wife Katherine ""Katie"" (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon Brando""s sister) is clad in a checkered apron in their simple yet respectable, wood-paneled home of the 1950s." Judith is stunned and denies the reality of the situation with repression: "Suppose we just don""t talk about it anymore.When discharged, Rocky returns to his former neighborhood, and visits the church where Father Jerry serves as parish priest and where they had been altar boys together twenty years earlier.In close-up, she looked down at her hands - and saw developing blisters.The contrast (of gender identification) with nearby Cora was unmistakable.The unsympathetic, manly rancher""s wife, wearing a butcher""s apron, couldn""t be bothered as she was slicing open and gutting the innards of a dead steer hanging in the living room from the ceiling.