Franklin seems in a weird way quite invested in Stanley. Like, she clearly sees that the marriage was in many ways stifling for Jackson (although at least Stanley did believe in the brilliance and importance of Jackson's work), and you kind of feel that she's rooting for Jackson to get away at the end (although Jackson dies before leaving Stanley, and it's hard to know if she would have ever actually left). But at the same time there IS so much about him, and I felt that some of Franklin's discomfort with lesbian readings of Jackson's work rose from the feeling that they would undermine the Shirley/Stanley relationship.