How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Rear Window.
Quote #7
JEFF: "Miss Lonelyhearts." Well, at least that's something you'll never have to worry about.
LISA: Oh? You can see my apartment from here, all the way up on 63rd Street?
Jeff assumes Lisa can have anything she wants, but she's no happier than he is. She wants to marry him but can't get him to commit and give up his travels. She's constantly being extremely seductive and amorous, but he ignores her. It's her unhappiness with the status of their relationship that pushes her to do something that might show Jeff that she can join him on his adventures: she climbs up a fire escape (in an elegant dress and heels) and sneaks into Thorwald's apartment.
Quote #8
STELLA: Poor soul. Ah well. Maybe one day she'll find her happiness.
JEFF: And some man will lose his.
Is marriage really that bad? Jeff is taking out his frustration about being confined to a wheelchair on poor Lisa, who's only trying to love him. This is one nasty comment about a woman who sure doesn't deserve it.
Quote #9
LISA: What makes you think something's wrong with [Thorwald's wife]?
JEFF: A lot of things. She's an invalid who needs constant care, and yet the husband nor anyone else has been in there all day.
Early in the film, Jeff sees Thorwald constantly being summoned by his wife, who's in bed sick. We get an idea why Thorwald is so unhappy in his marriage. Later, he's making long-distance calls and discussing his wife's jewelry—there's another woman, we assume. But as Lisa and Stella point out, lots of people are unhappy in their marriages but don't see it as a reason to dismember their spouses. Thorwald must be desperately miserable.