by nageren
After reading this chapter, I went back to re-read chapter 10 of A Strange Arrangement (SPOILER ALERT). So as turns out, Penny wasn’t a virgin after all. And that makes Penny’s story more plausible, albeit even more tragic than it already was. It never made sense to me that Penny would want to remain a virgin until marriage, but it totally makes sense now that we know she was a victim of sexual abuse.
Poor Penny! Victim of incest, lost two children (one of them a miscarriage), suffered mental illness, and (if I’m reading this chapter correctly) she realized that Andrew, the one really good thing in her life, no longer loved her. She lost her childhood, her children, her sanity, her “prince”, and in the end her life. In Sisters we are told clearly that her overdose was an accident, but I think there was more than enough to believe she could have deliberately committed suicide.
this is hurting so much, but i can't stop.
my first lvoer had been abused by her brother for years. i was too young and naive to understand. she is still a survivor, but i regret not laying hands on him the one time we met.
...except for the part where Hannah wanted to sleep with Andrew to take him down a peg. Don't understand that.
She already found out he was true to penny and Isa wasn't his lover.
Oh, Hannah is a screwed up and violent individual.
Is it wrong that I still wish she would be punished for wounding was like she did? lol.
Sincerely,
Payenbrant
I forgot that Isa also cleaned houses in addition to teaching.