AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

[David Morris]

This take is a perfect example of why P's later fiction falls flat.
 Tortured fan-take.

On Thursday, March 1, 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Lake. virtually disowned by dad, with no attempt to understand, no second
> chance, after a rebellious absquatulation.
> So, she accepts her rejection...and marries one of her dad's killers and
> fucks them both.
> Dad was 'dead' to her AND what a rejection back, eh?  Mirrored 'revenge'
> against her dad?
> Yet unlike her brothers, she is not visited by her dad's ghost.
>
> Could fucking his killers be some kind of crazy metaphor
> for..............forgiveness?; forgiveness as forgetting?
> Way to overcome the endless cycle of retribution?
>
>
> In sections after she has accepted her dad's death, this notion is
> actually expressed by her friend, the Sheriff's wife,,
> as is the notion that she may have coupled with Deuce and Sloat and
> married Deuce to join with her dad's killer(s),
>
> Is Lake, with Cyprian,  the largest-souled woman in the book? (Have some
> stuff on soul still brewing, still distilling)
>
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