Summary

While sitting in their kitchen, the narrator’s husband lights a match and holds it to his skin. He says he will not stop burning himself until his wife agrees to get off of Facebook. He maintains that because he is a revolutionary, his wife cannot allow her life to be a peep show and that it is likely that law enforcement agencies are monitoring social media accounts. She narrates, “his aim is to make me suffer for his pain” as he believes that if she loves him, she will do as he says to avoid him further pain (48). She deactivates her Facebook account which is her only lifeline to the outside world and which is crucial to her work as a writer. Her husband knows this.

Later that week, he insists that she give him her email password. She relates this...