hi dear one!!! whenever i see that you are active I get excited and start rereading! i was wondering if you could give a dvd commentary on this from ch.13:
What Christen does remember is Tobin, the week after the girl—Sarah, or Sara, something like that—had disappeared. She’d laughed when Kelley had mentioned the suddenly open spot in the class. She’d said, “It's not like she was gonna make it anyway.”
In Christen’s memory, Tobin had caught her eye in the minute after she said it. That might be made up too.
Did Tobin actually say that? I hadn’t imagined her being so ruthless and cruel, so I was surprised and intrigued. Also, what is the significance of her meeting Christen’s eye then?
totally cool if not! thanks for sharing your talent w us 🫶
this isn't going to be eloquent or complete at all but: I think my intent with that mini scene/memory was to show a wider feeling that christen was having about going back to studio company. the whole latter part of that chapter is sort of an unacknowledged panic attack, and that little memory is meant to signify that christen is losing her grasp on things and is spiralling a little back into the headspace she feels the environment necessitates.
the intent is definitely for the reader to be able to interpret it different ways — and hopefully to read it differently after reading other chapters etc. I will say you're not meant to be sure whether christen is remembering it clearly at all. she doesn't remember what the injury was or if it was actually serious or the girls name or even what she looked like but she somehow remembers a very specific comment tobin made and who she made it to and her expression in the moment that followed? doesn't add up! tobin looking at her could equally be an implication that tobin thought the same about christen or tobin realising she's been overheard and regretting it immediately, or maybe it never happened at all! the futility of memory!
I do think tobin could have said it, and would hope that it's something the reader could be torn about. I don't think it would make her that cruel if she did say it. insensitive definitely, but baring in mind they would've been like 17 and it was an overly harsh but true statement made to a friend and not said to the person it would actually upset its kind of just, sometimes people are very competitive and a bit mean!
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