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Jenny's father's house bulldozed to the ground


Jenny would have been happy that Forrest had her father's house bulldozed to the ground because she hated that house.

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Probably at Jenny's insistence and might be a plot issue as Forrest most likely would have had to buy the property to do so. Jenny would have inherited a share but then the previously mentioned sisters would have had their share to be dealt with. You can hate a house as many kids did due to the problems growing up there but very few could turn down the money from simply selling it.

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The house and property appeared long abandoned. Forrest probably did buy the property from the town for back taxes. Money he had.

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Possible but it just does not seem like a move Forrest would make. It does not seem like Jenny would want it to the point of buying it back from the county. I always assumed the father lived there until his death. That the leveling of the house happened shortly there after. Even in the Northeast during the 1960's and up I can recall properties that I would not consider livable but people lived there nonetheless.

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Forrest didn't know exactly what went on (unless Jenny said something which I wonder if she would not knowing if he would really understand), but he did know she freaked out for some reason when she saw the house as an adult and it brought her grief and sadness (something he could understand).

Agree, Jenny wouldn't want it, and indeed Forrest had it leveled after she died so it's not like she asked him to.

Jenny's dad was a drunk and a child molester, he could have died in prison for all we know. The house really looked run down like it was abandoned for a very long time but it's possible he could have lived there and deferred all maintenance until he croaked.

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Agree that Forrest would not understand incest and the effect it has on victims.

We are assuming that Forrest was responsible for the leveling of the house and not the new owner of that property. The house as it was would have been of little use to the new owner. Just something to be a liability for that person. Forrest and Jenny might have just been there as the new owner took over and did what they felt as new owners needed to be done. In a lot of ways this makes the most sense.

In my opinion based on what I was told that incest offenders seldom went to jail especially back then. Now have provable evidence of molesting a non family members was different. A lot of the problem is there are far more offenders and possible offenders out there than we can ever comprehend. If all true offenders were jailed there would be more people in the penal system than outside. That is how prevalent the problem is in my mind. Too much of society would not want to see a focused campaign against sexual abuse because they might be the ones in prison. Society is much more open today so if somebody has problems there should not be the stigma of seeking help which might save a life or two.

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Forrest and Jenny might have just been there as the new owner took over and did what they felt as new owners needed to be done. In a lot of ways this makes the most sense.


My recollection is that Forrest, while talking to the deceased Jenny at her grave, said he had the house bulldozed. Pretty sure that's what he said.

EDIT: Yep, just found it.

https://youtu.be/P9wwwo6eYQw?t=12

I guess Forrest understood enough about Jenny's family and homestead to know it caused her pain and suffering so he razed it for Jenny. Good for him.

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That's the way I remember it, that he did it for her.

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Does not make sense in a lot of respects but it is there in the dialogue.

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And then he shot Grandmas dog.
He was a mean dog.

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I know you were just making a joke but I'm sure that dog died a long time before Jenny died. In fact when they show Jenny packing up her things from her Grandma's trailer and going off with her friends when Forrest is in Vietnam, her Grandma doesn't appear to be there. The dog isn't there either.

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So Jenny killed and ate her grandma and the pet?

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So, you're making a possible link that Jenny may have died from kuru, is that correct?

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No she died of AIDS cause she was a slut.

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But your source comes from an unreliable narrator, Forrest.

If he witnessed Jenny shaking someone's hand, he'd think she was having sex. If Jenny hugged him, he prolly thought he was having sex.

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His narration was juxtaposed by reality, with her having sex with men who used and shared needles. She was a junkie skank.

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I said no such thing. Her Grandma probably died of old age some time after she graduated highschool and the dog probably died a few years before her Grandma.

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We're talking about a serial fornicator and drug abuser. With lead paint and leaded gas fumes all around in those days, it's not hard to assume she was also a murderer. Where was Jenny during the Zodiac killings, huh?

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You are crazy for thinking that and I have better things to do than talk to a crazy person. Good Day, sir!

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She was a drifter in SF and was also in other parts of California where the Zodiac killed. Put 2 and 2 together man!

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