Maybe this is a stupid question, but did Anna end up having an abortion? If it was addressed in the movie, I must've missed it......plus I wasn't sure if they did that back then.
"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl
The night Joe split up Anna's marriage, she had a miscarriage - the doctor calls it something like a happy coincidence if I remember correctly.
shareIn the book, it was an abortion.
I don't think movies had caught up with literature yet, in 1958. A forced abortion would have made Joe a really unsympathetic character.