I love this whole sequence. I love how she’s fond - albeit still sad - while first looking at Anne’s portrait. I love how suddenly furious she is. How betrayed she must feel, because Anne’s traveling alone, all over Europe, and she hasn’t written. Not once, like poor little Ann Walker is just an afterthought, something easily forgotten and left behind. How alone she must be feeling, right now? Forced to stay with her sister and his husban, a man that would gladly marry her off to one of his own relatives, someone she barely knows.
I love how she’s determined to burn what little tangible memory she have of Anne. Something that she made herself. And no matter how much her chin wobble, no matter how she might regret this later, and she probably does if the very end of the scene is any indication, she won’t back down from her own resolution.
Because she can’t have what she wants, after all, can she? So why should she torture herself for someone that left her behind, forgotten, like a broken toy to be replaced with the newest, shiniest thing?
This is feels like the beginning of the whole change in her attitude because while, yes, later on she’s contemplating caving to what “everyone wants”, this is probably the first time since she left Crow Nest that she did something because she actually wanted to. Not because someone asked, not because the opportunity presented itself (hello, stupid glass, I’m looking at you!), but because she chose to. She consciouly made the decision of burning that damn portrait and she does. Unsteadily, regretful even, but who wouldn’t be, in her situation?
So, TL;DR: I love this whole scene. I love this entire show - from the writing to the acting to everything else in between. And I can’t wait for season 2!
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