[ SECRET POST #3308 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3308 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's another subset of this--where what the narrative tells us about the character is at odds with what it shows.

I'm thinking right now of a really shitty novel I picked up at a Little Free Library--Sarah Jio's Goodnight, June. Ruby, the protag's great-aunt, is portrayed as this wonderful person--June says over and over how awesome she is. So feisty! So original! So generous and full of love! And she has this great love affair with a married guy...and the cheated-on wife is portrayed as the villain because she knows her husband doesn't love her, but she won't step aside so he can be with his Twoo Wub. Why doesn't the great lover divorce his wife? Well, because he married her for her money! (I mean, that just proves his wife means nothing to him!) But that doesn't change the extreme wonderfulness of their love!

Then Ruby has a baby. Her lover dies in a freak accident before it's born, and Ruby is afraid the cheated-on wife will try to claim the child--so Ruby fobs the baby off on her 20 year old niece, who passes her off as her own child. The niece, by the way, has been caring for her younger siblings since she was 13 and their mother, Ruby's sister Lucille, died. Did Ruby do a solitary thing to help this girl whose childhood was cut short deal with her responsibilities? Nope! But she dumps her kid on the niece with no qualms at all, then judges the niece for not being a good enough parent.

But at the end of the story, we're still supposed to think that Ruby is the most wonderful creature ever.