One night after August beat Rosie badly Jacob realized the evil that was inside of August and that “it’s hard to reconcile this August with the other one...I’ve seen flashes of this August before- this brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit” (Gruen 229). However, since Jacob was fooled by August for so long he did not “believe for a second that this is the real August and the other as aberration” and yet he could “see how they [other people] might be fooled” (Gruen 229). Since the beginning of Marlena and August’s marriage she thought that he was sometimes evil because she was told that he was a paranoid schizophrenic, however, she was forced to stay with him. When August hit Marlena, because he thought her and Jacob were
