I know that Gothic is supposed to be creepy and wrong, I will defend Flowers in the Attic forever, but the reader's supposed to know it's intentionally creepy and wrong. It doesn't seem like Quinn is supposed to be a terrible yucky creepazoid, does it? Like, we're supposed to sympathize with him?
Yeah, I don't get at all the impression Rice knows this is gross, especially the racial stuff
Which is a shame because as a Southerner who knows the kind of history between white employers and black staff that she's drawing on, as well as a fellow Gothic enthusiast in general, I'd really have loved to see this as written by another person who was deliberately trying to draw attention to a wealthy white family stuck in the past, who are ABLE to be stuck in the past by virtue of their money and isolation, and how that ends up twisting the heir and making him this creepy fuck
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I know that Gothic is supposed to be creepy and wrong, I will defend Flowers in the Attic forever, but the reader's supposed to know it's intentionally creepy and wrong. It doesn't seem like Quinn is supposed to be a terrible yucky creepazoid, does it? Like, we're supposed to sympathize with him?
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Which is a shame because as a Southerner who knows the kind of history between white employers and black staff that she's drawing on, as well as a fellow Gothic enthusiast in general, I'd really have loved to see this as written by another person who was deliberately trying to draw attention to a wealthy white family stuck in the past, who are ABLE to be stuck in the past by virtue of their money and isolation, and how that ends up twisting the heir and making him this creepy fuck
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