When Louise was pregnant she was encased in the fist of the absolute and prefect belief that her child would be named Daniel---or if it was a girl Danielle. Her fierce and lion- defeating child seemed to gnaw on her stomach. Earl was held by the delusion that if they had a daughter, she would be named by Marlene. Louise recognized that this insistence stemmed from his inscrutable fascination with Marlene Dietrich. Louise did not understand the place the actress had in her husband's imagination, but she resented it. She interpreted the actress's opaque and half-lidded expression as a sign of mental impairment and she did not want her child named after that German retard. After WWII she did not want anyone in her family to be reminded of Germany.