Aside from the physical effect of losing weight, I noticed that the curse is changing Billy a lot as a person. He seems really pissed off about his situation, especially since the weight loss is starting to occur at a faster rate, and its reflecting in his personality. He's now a more angry and hateful person then he was before he was cursed. He has an overall negative outlook and says that nobody is complimenting him on weight loss anymore and he's sure everyone is talking about him behind his back. He thinks everyone believes he has cancer or some sort of disease and the problem with his pants falling down in court only made him angrier.
He even starts to hate Heidi and he continues to avoid telling her what is truly causing his weight loss, mainly because he feels she's party responsible for his situation.
I think that because Billy is mad about the fact that he's been cursed by the gypsy, he wants to blame it on somebody else; so he chooses Heidi. It says, "For one moment . . . he felt a sudden savage moment of hate for her" (75). He knows that is Heidi wasn't giving him a handjob and distracting him for driving he wouldn't have hit the gypsy. It explicitly says that Billy thought, "If Heidi hadn't picked that day to try out a little auto eroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle, and {they}would have stopped at least five feet from the gypsy woman" (77). Even though I think Halleck accepts part of the responsibility, I think he's trying to dump the blame of Heidi so he can say its somebody else's fault. He didn't do anything to stop her in the car, so its also his fault.
Overall, you can see that the curse is taking a toll on Billy and he's becoming a lot more negative and he's assuming the worst.
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