/She is told that Patch will be in serious trouble if they continue dating? She contemplates suicide./
And look at the reasons why she’s contemplating suicide. It’s not because Patch has left her. It’s not because he’s said that he doesn’t love her anymore or that he never loved her.
It’s because she and Patch AREN’T GETTING THEIR WAY. She outright said that she would kill herself just to spite the archangels, just to say, “I’ll show YOU!” Which makes her even worse than Bella in “New Moon.” What Nora is thinking here is the equivalent of Bella threatening to kill herself if Charlie didn’t let Edward come over their house. Bella emotionally blackmailed Charlie, sure, but at least she didn’t threaten to kill herself if he didn’t let her have her way.
/Today, it’s generally agreed that the author unintentionally wrote a perfect example of a captive loving her captor via Stockholm Syndrome./
And an example of racist the author was. “Oh, it turns out that he’s secretly white! So, there’s no reason why you can’t marry him now! Sure, he raped you and treated you like garbage, but he isn’t a dirty Arab anymore! Isn’t that the only reason why you wouldn’t marry such a person?”
It says something when the 1921 movie version actually toned the Sheik down somewhat. Yes, there were people in *1921* who didn’t think that that travesty of a book was all sunshine and kisses. Something to consider when misogyny-apologists yammer on about how “it was a different time back then” and that’s why critics are so biased for thinking that a book that glorifies rape, misogyny, and racism is a literary abomination that should die in a fire.
/And she’s a selfish bint who doesn’t give two shits about what her mom would think if she just disappeared/
Yeah, notice how her mom doesn’t enter her thoughts at all? How Nora doesn’t even think about how her mom would feel if she killed herself or if she ran away? Oh, yeah, I can totally buy that this is a romance for the ages, all right.
/reliable counter attendant/
*snorts* “Reliable?” Yeah, Nora is the epitome of reliability. And of course it’s the night shift. Yeah, I don’t see any contrived scare scenes coming this way.
/And it should probably not come as a surprise that it’s all about Marcie Miller./
*sighs* Let me guess. Marcie is going to be Nora’s customer and the two of them will tiresomely bicker with each other over Patch.
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And look at the reasons why she’s contemplating suicide. It’s not because Patch has left her. It’s not because he’s said that he doesn’t love her anymore or that he never loved her.
It’s because she and Patch AREN’T GETTING THEIR WAY. She outright said that she would kill herself just to spite the archangels, just to say, “I’ll show YOU!” Which makes her even worse than Bella in “New Moon.” What Nora is thinking here is the equivalent of Bella threatening to kill herself if Charlie didn’t let Edward come over their house. Bella emotionally blackmailed Charlie, sure, but at least she didn’t threaten to kill herself if he didn’t let her have her way.
/Today, it’s generally agreed that the author unintentionally wrote a perfect example of a captive loving her captor via Stockholm Syndrome./
And an example of racist the author was. “Oh, it turns out that he’s secretly white! So, there’s no reason why you can’t marry him now! Sure, he raped you and treated you like garbage, but he isn’t a dirty Arab anymore! Isn’t that the only reason why you wouldn’t marry such a person?”
It says something when the 1921 movie version actually toned the Sheik down somewhat. Yes, there were people in *1921* who didn’t think that that travesty of a book was all sunshine and kisses. Something to consider when misogyny-apologists yammer on about how “it was a different time back then” and that’s why critics are so biased for thinking that a book that glorifies rape, misogyny, and racism is a literary abomination that should die in a fire.
/And she’s a selfish bint who doesn’t give two shits about what her mom would think if she just disappeared/
Yeah, notice how her mom doesn’t enter her thoughts at all? How Nora doesn’t even think about how her mom would feel if she killed herself or if she ran away? Oh, yeah, I can totally buy that this is a romance for the ages, all right.
/reliable counter attendant/
*snorts* “Reliable?” Yeah, Nora is the epitome of reliability. And of course it’s the night shift. Yeah, I don’t see any contrived scare scenes coming this way.
/And it should probably not come as a surprise that it’s all about Marcie Miller./
*sighs* Let me guess. Marcie is going to be Nora’s customer and the two of them will tiresomely bicker with each other over Patch.