It’s hard to tell if she really love him or not.
To me it seems like she only married him to take a stand and make heads turn. Since that was not even negotiable to marry a black man, to me it look like she did it to further her cause and giving the middle finger to the whole system on slavery.
The fact that Grady's death sent her to an asylum, and her guilt that her love destroyed him rather proves her feelings were genuine.
shareI recall a scene where George and Orry discuss Virgilia and Grady.
George says that Grady's race wouldn't really be an issue to him or his family if they felt Virgilia truly loved him. However, they feel that she married him more to make a point than out of any true feelings of love.
I have always thought that it was hard to say. Virgilia had become very fanatical in her views towards slavery and trying to stop it. I do believe that she was absolutely giving a big finger to the establishment by marrying Grady. But I also think she had some genuine feeling for him. I don't know that I would call it love. She had become so fanatical that the lines had become blurred. Even Grady saw that when he questioned why she was sleeping with him.
shareI think she was moreover trying to prove something. That whole scene where she sabotages the carriage and arranges it so she winds up in the barn with Grady (who she didn't really know)has nothing to do with love. She cared as a friend, but you couldn't really compare their relationship to the ones George and Orry had with their wives.
shareI agree, because she slept with him immediately, and decided she wanted to marry him right away. It just didn't seem like true love. It was almost like she saw him as her pet that she had to protect.
shareshe married him to p!ss people off
shareI disagree. I think she really did love him.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
I agree with you, but please, her name was Virgilia! Sorry, but this drives me crazy.
shareI definitely think she loved him. Watch it again and listen to what she says.
I think she loved him but I think there was definitely more to it than that, I think she was using their relationship as part of her statement.
shareNo, I think she was caught up in the situation and let it get of hand.
She went down South to see how it really was, and to humiliate Orry and raise cain. She did all of that in one whack. I think she was more sexually attracted to him at first. She had never seen a guy like him and she let her passion overrule her sense. He was the same way and they got into it good. They based their decisions off that when they should have left it alone.
When she freed him I think she felt it was her duty to marry him but they weren't right for each other. I think he legit cared for her but she didn't know how to love him until after he died when she lost it.