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."
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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