ATD: unanswered questions

[Tore Rye Andersen]

bandwraith:

> It's easy to dismiss [Lake] for rewarding Deuce with
> her love. He's hideous. But Webb's own treatment
> of Lake left a lot to be desired, and is arguably partly
> responsible for her lack of filial loyalty after his murder;

[...]

> Her "punishment" is more problematical, it seems to
> me, than that of Scarsdale, or Deuce and Sloat. 

Sure, Webb was a shitty father, and his treatment of Lake does indeed 
seem to be the main reason for Lake's lack of filial loyalty. And perhaps 
that's the problem: Webb was not only a shitty father for Lake, but also for 
the three brothers. For instance, he managed to scare Kit away, but Kit 
refused to let the rest of his life be dictated, as it were, by the sins of 
the father. It seems to me that Lake's primary motivation for marrying 
Deuce is not love, but hatred for and rebellion against the ghost of her father. 
She knows right from the beginning that Deuce was the killer, and to punish her 
father, she enters into a miserable marriage, wrecking her own subsequent life 
in the process. Her punishment does seem problematical, but in a sense she
brings it on herself, by letting her choices be dictated by Webb's poor 
treatment of her.


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