ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[Joseph T]

I see Lake as an abuse vicim who gives up her identity for numbness,  
misery and sex, because otherwise she is married to a chickenshit  
hired killer who murdered her Father. Loyalty doesn't seem like the  
right word. I see a lake  colonized by lies violence and abuse and  
being filled with the poisons of industrial runoff, fucked from all 4  
directions. I care about her but her l"loyalty" is her misery.  I  
guess this just shows how differently 2 people can read any  
character. But I think Lake is a kind of example of passivity,  
complicity, victimization.
On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

>  I did enjoy the way Lake was able to finally shed her old man. I  
> liked Lake. There was something very touching about her loyalty to  
> that marriage made in hell she'd gotten herself into.

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