In “Montreal 1962” by Shauna Singh Baldwin, the wife’s behaviors and motivations influence the events and the resolution of the conflict through her determination to keep her culture which defies the external conflict. The wife’s determination to keep her culture influences the resolution and events when the wife goes to the dry cleaner, but the woman there, “held it like a dishrag, and she asked me, ‘Is it a bed sheet?’” (Baldwin 3). Rather than taking the signs and letting go, she reclaims and cleans the clothes at their apartment, signaling the wife’s determination to maintain her cultural freedom. Her perseverance further solidifies when she envisions the future where “My hands will tie a turban everyday upon [her husband’s] head and work