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An Act of Kindness…

posted 3 years ago by Jeepster (1145)
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Was one of my favorites in this but I have to admit many things about it perplexed me. Why would Emily go through all that trouble of seducing Lowe & then marrying him only to just nonchalantly kill him at the end? Did that make any sense? It was as if she & her father were taking revenge against him for something he did to them which was nothing except lie about the medal. As the saying goes “what was their trip?”

Or was it because she offered to kill the wife & he didn’t object or gave permission? Was that it? Then you have to assume that when she showed him the doll he implicitly would’ve known & better yet “believed” what would’ve happened. Who here wouldn’t have just thought that she was just some kook?

The end quote about her saying to the son “We always answer the prayers of children, one way or the other”. So what? They knew that this kid wished for his father to be dead? Ok, if you entertain that, then that begs the question who were they exactly, she & her father if they could know this & why would they care? Supernatural entities of some sort? Demons in disguise? This really isn’t discussed when it comes to this particular story so I’m asking. Thank you all.

[–] Ant1238 (908) 3 years ago

There's simply not enough information in the story as we see it to answer any of these questions really, haha. I took it as the kid wished for both his parents to be dead, and whoever Pleasance and his daughter were went about it in a very elaborate manner for whatever reason!

[–] EleazarHisSon (750) 2 months ago

It's never said explicitly and left with ambiguity to the viewer, I suppose. The twist in my interpretation is that the soldier and his daughter who is living with her father are revealed at the end to have a romantic relationship when they take the boy and adopt him as their own. The two were out for him all along. What's really sick and creepy in the story is the incest angle.