Whom Clem loved--was Charlotte right?
Do you think that Charlotte was right when she told Delia at the end that Clem truly loved Delia and Tina truly loved Delia, and so they both ended up belonging to her? I'm sure there was some bitterness involved in that and obviously I don't think that it's fair the way things played out with Tina--and I wouldn't say that Tina belonged only to Delia in the long run. But Clem is a much murkier matter, I feel...he definitely loved Delia before Charlotte, and even though Delia made a poor and spiteful decision, she always went on loving him too. I'm sure that Clem would have married Charlotte, and had geniune feelings for her, but do you think that there could still be some justice in what Charlotte said?
I'm pretty torn about it myself...you can't deny that Tina does love Delia very much, and you can't deny that Clem did too--at least at one point. I'm not quite ready to look at Delia as a villain here because I think she does some truly kind things and even her most horrible behavior is pretty understandable; she's definitely weaker than Charlotte, but the world is full of weak people. I think Charlotte says at one point that Clem "hadn't quite broken his heart" over Delia, which is a really interesting and ambiguous statement. It's a shame that we couldn't see more about Clem, since he more or less caused everything that happened in this movie.