/Sure, Nora. You just keep that all a secret. I’m sure your mother would much rather stay in your farmhouse home than have you alive and safe./
What is so special about that stupid house? What memories, Nora? You barely think about your father and your mother is almost never home. And between actually letting your mother know what's going so that you can be safe and sound and saying nothing, I'd think that I'd go with the former. I know that moving is hard, but you can't enjoy the house and its memories if you're *dead.*
/“Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you're willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love”./
Wait a minute. She "thought" that it was love? Meaning that it really wasn't? And instead of recognizing that fact and thus realizing that it wasn't a good idea to get married, she just hung around until she and her husband grew to love each other?
Look, I've heard of people in arranged marriages gradually falling in love with each other, but this wasn't an arranged marriage! Not from what we've heard! Nora's mother had a choice. She had the option to say no. She could have told Mr. Grey that they needed to wait a little more before getting married. But no, she was just *so* in love with him (or rather, she *thought* that she was so in love with him) that she married him right away before they knew that it was love. Funny, I always thought that most couples agreed to get married *after* they realized that they loved each other. Not "Oh, I don't really know where we are at this point, but let's get married and maybe everything will fall into place later" or "Maybe once we get married, he'll finally love me."
Unless Mrs. Grey means that they got married because Mr. Grey knocked her up and it was only afterwards that they grew to love each other.
/Apparently he had a habit of taking a chainsaw to the trees in the backyard whenever that happened, and their woodshed is still filled up from the last time that happened./
...a *chainsaw?* It'd be one thing if he was beating a tree with a baseball bat, but a *chainsaw?*
Dear Lord, Nora seems to have inherited her mother's stupidity and her bad taste in men.
/They say that they have things to get done, so they’re going to leave her alone until her mom gets back, at which point they want her mother to give them a call./
It's only *now* that they want to get in touch with her mother? Why didn't they ask for Mrs. Grey before they started asking Nora questions? Why didn't they tell Nora to call her mother right then and there so that one cop would get to talk to her and call her over while the other was interrogating Nora?
And yeah, I'm sure that making false calls isn't a crime or anything. So, they'll leave just like that. Man, everybody in this story is such a moron.
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What is so special about that stupid house? What memories, Nora? You barely think about your father and your mother is almost never home. And between actually letting your mother know what's going so that you can be safe and sound and saying nothing, I'd think that I'd go with the former. I know that moving is hard, but you can't enjoy the house and its memories if you're *dead.*
/“Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you're willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love”./
Wait a minute. She "thought" that it was love? Meaning that it really wasn't? And instead of recognizing that fact and thus realizing that it wasn't a good idea to get married, she just hung around until she and her husband grew to love each other?
Look, I've heard of people in arranged marriages gradually falling in love with each other, but this wasn't an arranged marriage! Not from what we've heard! Nora's mother had a choice. She had the option to say no. She could have told Mr. Grey that they needed to wait a little more before getting married. But no, she was just *so* in love with him (or rather, she *thought* that she was so in love with him) that she married him right away before they knew that it was love. Funny, I always thought that most couples agreed to get married *after* they realized that they loved each other. Not "Oh, I don't really know where we are at this point, but let's get married and maybe everything will fall into place later" or "Maybe once we get married, he'll finally love me."
Unless Mrs. Grey means that they got married because Mr. Grey knocked her up and it was only afterwards that they grew to love each other.
/Apparently he had a habit of taking a chainsaw to the trees in the backyard whenever that happened, and their woodshed is still filled up from the last time that happened./
...a *chainsaw?* It'd be one thing if he was beating a tree with a baseball bat, but a *chainsaw?*
Dear Lord, Nora seems to have inherited her mother's stupidity and her bad taste in men.
/They say that they have things to get done, so they’re going to leave her alone until her mom gets back, at which point they want her mother to give them a call./
It's only *now* that they want to get in touch with her mother? Why didn't they ask for Mrs. Grey before they started asking Nora questions? Why didn't they tell Nora to call her mother right then and there so that one cop would get to talk to her and call her over while the other was interrogating Nora?
And yeah, I'm sure that making false calls isn't a crime or anything. So, they'll leave just like that. Man, everybody in this story is such a moron.