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: Anita is Paul's wife.

" Of all the people on the north side of the river rich ones, Anita was the only one whose contempt for those in Homestead poor side of the river was laced with active hatred.

She was also the only wife on the north side who had never been to college at all.

[...] If Paul were ever moved to be extremely cruel to her, the cruelest thing he could do, he knew, would be to point out to her why she hated as she did: if he hadn't married her, this was where she'd be, what she'd be.

" She is described as an attractive woman with a desire for her husband's career advancement, to a fault.

She cannot bear children, although she and Paul married quickly when it seemed she was pregnant.