Germaine embraces the rule that dictates she will be validated as a woman, as a wife, and as a member of the society in which she happens to live, only if she bears a child. She has no other options. They are not foreseen by the rule. If she fails to bear a child, she ceases to exist as a personality. Other solutions are not accepted, perhaps because they are not understandable, perhaps because they cause unwanted disturbances.

With the visible signs of her justifiably simmering doubt, Germaine follows the voluntary delusion and decides to subject herself to guilt and to struggle to achieve her desire through means that will not eliminate the real cause of her problem, but rather address its symptoms conventionally and ceremoniously.

Germaine as a drama is an authentic tragedy. Therefore, Germaine as the protagonist of the drama is a genuine tragic heroine. Within her soul, thus, coexist two entities, that of the victim and that of the perpetrator, intricately connected and constantly negating each other, as is customary in every true form of tragedy.