Guilty In Ernest Hemingway's The Death Of Ali

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She was in jail for her debt. She tried to work in bars and food places, but she wasn’t get pay enough to be able to pay her debt, and so that’s the reason that she’s willing to marry Ali. And although Ali is a guy that is constantly checking on her and following her aroun or even beats her, she describes him as a guy that is respectful. She had a hard past and she just wants to run away from it.
The only thing that really matters is the debt and the fact that she doesn’t want to end up in jail again, so she’s keeping it in, and just deal with Ali so he pays her debt.
But still at the end, when she heard that Ali is about to die, she really does feel sad, or maybe even guilty for planning to kill him, and so she starts to cry and ask Thomas

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