Dawn focuses on academics. Elizabeth focuses on the idea that she is in high school and already looking to dump Anthony. Note that Anthony is not lunching with them, as you would expect.
However, the best part of this comic strip are panels 2 and 3 and the unknown girl sitting next to Dawn. She is looking down in panel 2. Then she is looking away from Elizabeth in panel 3. What could she have seen that would cause her to avert her eyes and look with such disdain? Maybe it was something like this:
The point of this arc is to remind us of what complicates Liz's love life: her belief that people should be more understanding when she acts like a shallow flirt.
who loves being the center of attention
This leads to the ultimate horror: Mike being the one making actual sense:
The moment Liz said "and then what? A year from now I'll still want to move home," Paul should have realized it was over and Liz did not see a future together with him. Whether she meant to or not, she said in very clear terms "no matter how long we are together, I am going to leave you, you are not a priority. No matter how long I live here, this place will never be Home." This is as close to being honest that Liz was ever going to get, Paul. This is Liz's cowardly version of a Dismissal.
I have absolutely zero doubt that Paul could have given up his career, moved to Whitebreadborough, and Liz would have "casually, innocently" bumped into Anthony on a regular basis. When Paul found out, she would have snapped at him for "not understanding." Liz's friends would have supported her in her condemnation of Paul's "lack of understanding." Paul would have eventually left and Liz would have pretended to be heartbroken but found comfort with Anthony, who it turned out was her "destiny." I'm glad we didn't have to see that at least.
There's a damn good reason for that: they can do whatever they want but they share in the mass psychosis that Liz is obliged to marry the Christopher Nichols analog Lynn assigned her.
because they too fear and hate The SCARY OUTSIDER who doesn't much care for the vapid infant her husband fixates on.
I can't figure what Lynn wants us to see here. What I see is a group of catty cliche's who are eager to fill the void of their empty lives by destroying a marriage for fun.
She wants us to approve of the shabby way she behaved when she was married to Doug. He wanted to live in the real damn world and take her with him so.........
Also, they take their cue from a dullard who thinks that it's normal and good to get married before he figured out what to do with his life:
These nitwits can't let go of the goofy fantasy wedding that feels like validation to an empty-headed trophy wife. The Please Love Anthony letter was, after all, a load of twee bushwah about how "knowing who this person is" was his sole selling point. If it's okay for Liz to do to Elly what she did to Marian, Elly loses.
Actual human response: "Why? Because we dated in high school? Not everyone who dates in high school gets married, Gordon. I've met other people since then. Besides, why are you even thinking about my love life? Aren't you busy enough with a wife and kids of your own?"
He knows that his backers think the world of him.......and Therese scares him. A woman not content to be a meek little nobody whom nobody will especially miss when she dies makes a peasant buffoon who paints his legs with shoe polish look like a bad catch.
As we go through the high school romance of Elizabeth and Anthony, there are many moments when they are not dating or are not interested in each other. We have them coming up. So it's interesting that at some point Lynn decides that Liz and Anthony are meant for each other and their relationship changes to a relationship of destiny. The reader would be led to believe that Elizabeth would be like Mike and would have a series of boyfriends as girls often do. At this point, the reader did not know Mike was going to end up back with his very first girlfriend from Grades 1 - 4. When Liz and Anthony break up and get back together and then break up again, it's like it is a Martha/Mike or Rhetta/Mike relationship. Gordon apparently had a different opinion.
Michael doesn't even get to reconnect with a woman he knew as an adult. He has to "fall in love again" with a girl he knew in freaking third grade. I can't get over how Ick that is.
Plus there is the whole element of Deanna being engaged to a man her parents liked and then her choice to drop him to be with Michael, who actively dislikes her mother. There is a part of that story which indicates that Deanna chose Michael less because she loves him and more because she wanted use him as a weapon against her mother. This idea may have had an appeal for Lynn because she disliked her own mother so much and might have been delighted if her husband felt the same.
We could compare Deanna to Frances Ward, Fanny Price's mother, in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who "married, in the common sense, to disoblige her family."
Dawn focuses on academics. Elizabeth focuses on the idea that she is in high school and already looking to dump Anthony. Note that Anthony is not lunching with them, as you would expect.
However, the best part of this comic strip are panels 2 and 3 and the unknown girl sitting next to Dawn. She is looking down in panel 2. Then she is looking away from Elizabeth in panel 3. What could she have seen that would cause her to avert her eyes and look with such disdain? Maybe it was something like this:
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The point of this arc is to remind us of what complicates Liz's love life: her belief that people should be more understanding when she acts like a shallow flirt.
who loves being the center of attention
This leads to the ultimate horror: Mike being the one making actual sense:
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The moment Liz said "and then what? A year from now I'll still want to move home," Paul should have realized it was over and Liz did not see a future together with him. Whether she meant to or not, she said in very clear terms "no matter how long we are together, I am going to leave you, you are not a priority. No matter how long I live here, this place will never be Home." This is as close to being honest that Liz was ever going to get, Paul. This is Liz's cowardly version of a Dismissal.
I have absolutely zero doubt that Paul could have given up his career, moved to Whitebreadborough, and Liz would have "casually, innocently" bumped into Anthony on a regular basis. When Paul found out, she would have snapped at him for "not understanding." Liz's friends would have supported her in her condemnation of Paul's "lack of understanding." Paul would have eventually left and Liz would have pretended to be heartbroken but found comfort with Anthony, who it turned out was her "destiny." I'm glad we didn't have to see that at least.
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There's a damn good reason for that: they can do whatever they want but they share in the mass psychosis that Liz is obliged to marry the Christopher Nichols analog Lynn assigned her.
because they too fear and hate The SCARY OUTSIDER who doesn't much care for the vapid infant her husband fixates on.
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I can't figure what Lynn wants us to see here. What I see is a group of catty cliche's who are eager to fill the void of their empty lives by destroying a marriage for fun.
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She wants us to approve of the shabby way she behaved when she was married to Doug. He wanted to live in the real damn world and take her with him so.........
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Also, they take their cue from a dullard who thinks that it's normal and good to get married before he figured out what to do with his life:
These nitwits can't let go of the goofy fantasy wedding that feels like validation to an empty-headed trophy wife. The Please Love Anthony letter was, after all, a load of twee bushwah about how "knowing who this person is" was his sole selling point. If it's okay for Liz to do to Elly what she did to Marian, Elly loses.
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"I always thought he'd be engaged to you."
Actual human response: "Why? Because we dated in high school? Not everyone who dates in high school gets married, Gordon. I've met other people since then. Besides, why are you even thinking about my love life? Aren't you busy enough with a wife and kids of your own?"
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He knows that his backers think the world of him.......and Therese scares him. A woman not content to be a meek little nobody whom nobody will especially miss when she dies makes a peasant buffoon who paints his legs with shoe polish look like a bad catch.
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Why? Because we dated in high school?
As we go through the high school romance of Elizabeth and Anthony, there are many moments when they are not dating or are not interested in each other. We have them coming up. So it's interesting that at some point Lynn decides that Liz and Anthony are meant for each other and their relationship changes to a relationship of destiny. The reader would be led to believe that Elizabeth would be like Mike and would have a series of boyfriends as girls often do. At this point, the reader did not know Mike was going to end up back with his very first girlfriend from Grades 1 - 4. When Liz and Anthony break up and get back together and then break up again, it's like it is a Martha/Mike or Rhetta/Mike relationship. Gordon apparently had a different opinion.
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Michael doesn't even get to reconnect with a woman he knew as an adult. He has to "fall in love again" with a girl he knew in freaking third grade. I can't get over how Ick that is.
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Plus there is the whole element of Deanna being engaged to a man her parents liked and then her choice to drop him to be with Michael, who actively dislikes her mother. There is a part of that story which indicates that Deanna chose Michael less because she loves him and more because she wanted use him as a weapon against her mother. This idea may have had an appeal for Lynn because she disliked her own mother so much and might have been delighted if her husband felt the same.
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We could compare Deanna to Frances Ward, Fanny Price's mother, in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who "married, in the common sense, to disoblige her family."
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It's only okay for Elly and Connie to want pretty grandkids.
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Besides, why are you even thinking about my love life?
THIS! I was having the same thought.
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It's like Elly farmed out this sort of thing to subcontractors.
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