Why was Jake upset about his wife changing her hair, if he had been trying to get her to assimilate all that time? She was trying to please him. It was adorable and sad the way she shyly awaited him, and then he attacked her.
El Paso, Texas...ever heard of it?
--It was to show there was nothing she could do to please him. It wasn't just her hair; he wanted out of the relationship.
--He was just not "into her" anymore, and had forgotten what her real hair looked like.
--Gives the story a violent climax complete with tears that makes it clear there is no return possible to their marital happiness in the old country.
--Gives her the motivation to accept a divorce from him (for the right price).
I felt so sorry for Gitl for most of this film; Jake was such an unmitigated bastard that I kept wishing someone would bean him with a frying pan. Fortunately, after the divorce, Gitl gets the man who has quietly loved her from a distance, and Jake gets the woman he wanted...in fact he gets stuck with her. I laughed out loud.
Never mess with a middle-aged, Bipolar queen with AIDS and an attitude problem!
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Because he didn't want her anymore. He wanted the whore he was running with.
He thought he was too good for Gitl....actually it was the other way around. She got the man who appreciated her and Jake got the slut.
I think also one reason is that to him her hairstyle was ugly and unfashionable and looked a bit like the wigs she had been wearing. He says, "She looks like a wet cat!"
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I also wanted to clobber Keats' character. I have loved Carol Kane since Carnal Knowledge and it was love at first sight, so seeing him come in and attack her in all her beauty and fragility should make anyone angry.
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