With every adult Whitefern girl having been destroyed inside and out the last survivor into Adulthood is Audrina. She is trying to fight the idea of being turned into “The First Audrina” (her father’s perfect “Other”) so she may preserve some semblance of her own identity. Her fight begins early on noticing how the way her father acts is wrong. There are contradictions between his behavior and actions. He claims to love her mother but ruins her self-esteem and beats her for “defiance”. He claimed to love her aunt but he placed her in the role of bitter housemaid. He even claimed to love Vera on rare occasions but painted her as an evil witch. Everything her father touched he destroyed throughout the formative years of her life he slowly does
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Her happy ending is taken away as once again her father brings another women (Billie) to her lowest point of self-loss only for her to die. He ruins her marriage by showing the ugly side of her husband that her aunt worried would happen. Her husband becomes this selfish and weak man that uses pity to keep the women he “loves” with him. He claims to need Vera as an outlet because Audrina will to respond to his advances. He claims, “What did you expect?” when his motives are questioned. He uses this combination of pity, “love” and hatred to get what he wants because like her father he needs Audrina’s reassurance that he is a good person. This is all made worse when Audrina learns that he was there when she was raped and did …show more content…
Even if she tries she is punished whether the punishment is losing her freedoms or being cheated on with her sister Vera. No man is ever her equal in her life there are only “Ones” and “Others”. Audrina makes a final attempt to escape. She is met with resistance as always. Though the resistance to Audrina’s decision to leave falls along the line of empty threats, pleading, and begging, making it rather lack luster they attempt do not have to be grandiose. The psychologically damage is already done. Audrina is both left with an eerie prophecy as well as presenting one of her own. Audrina warns Arden with these words, “you escaped by the skin of your teeth from becoming exactly what my father is, a fraud, a cheat out to steal even from his own daughters.” (Andrews, 1982 pg.522) Arden himself replies to her challenge with this, “You’ll come back. You think you can say goodbye to me, to Whitefern, to Sylvia and to your father, but you’ll come back.” It only takes mere minutes for him to be right. Not even far from the drive, the last engrained fear kicks in. Her last fear is for Sylvia’s safety. Audrina cannot convince herself to leave without Sylvia. She tries to persuade Sylvia to go with her to no avail. That wrote Audrina’s death sentence. That fear causes her to turn back and run into Arden’s arms. The story gives off a guise of starting over and trying again but with Arden correct in
Her happy ending is taken away as once again her father brings another women (Billie) to her lowest point of self-loss only for her to die. He ruins her marriage by showing the ugly side of her husband that her aunt worried would happen. Her husband becomes this selfish and weak man that uses pity to keep the women he “loves” with him. He claims to need Vera as an outlet because Audrina will to respond to his advances. He claims, “What did you expect?” when his motives are questioned. He uses this combination of pity, “love” and hatred to get what he wants because like her father he needs Audrina’s reassurance that he is a good person. This is all made worse when Audrina learns that he was there when she was raped and did …show more content…
Even if she tries she is punished whether the punishment is losing her freedoms or being cheated on with her sister Vera. No man is ever her equal in her life there are only “Ones” and “Others”. Audrina makes a final attempt to escape. She is met with resistance as always. Though the resistance to Audrina’s decision to leave falls along the line of empty threats, pleading, and begging, making it rather lack luster they attempt do not have to be grandiose. The psychologically damage is already done. Audrina is both left with an eerie prophecy as well as presenting one of her own. Audrina warns Arden with these words, “you escaped by the skin of your teeth from becoming exactly what my father is, a fraud, a cheat out to steal even from his own daughters.” (Andrews, 1982 pg.522) Arden himself replies to her challenge with this, “You’ll come back. You think you can say goodbye to me, to Whitefern, to Sylvia and to your father, but you’ll come back.” It only takes mere minutes for him to be right. Not even far from the drive, the last engrained fear kicks in. Her last fear is for Sylvia’s safety. Audrina cannot convince herself to leave without Sylvia. She tries to persuade Sylvia to go with her to no avail. That wrote Audrina’s death sentence. That fear causes her to turn back and run into Arden’s arms. The story gives off a guise of starting over and trying again but with Arden correct in