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So why did the parents exile Marianne?

posted 8 years ago by GalesGurl
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I watched the whole movie and I don't get why they did that to her. I mean, she got raped, right? Seems pretty mean to do to a rape victim that is your own daughter. And I though they were like obsessed with her, like they kept calling her a miracle child n *beep* So did I miss something? Oh and the Marianne chick didn't even seem like she cared. Like if my parents exiled me for getting raped I'd *beep* disown them for that *beep* Am I missing something or were the parents just really *beep* up human beings?

[–] deem_bastille 8 years ago

by parents you mean father. he did this all. the mother was just along for the ride, she did no driving.

I wonder if her father was just thinking: well, you are 15 and you were drinking, this is what you get.

not what I am thinking, but parents especially back then were like that.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more. Edmund Blackadder.

[–] bbenet 8 years ago

Perhaps it was an overdose of the Irish Catholic in him. Pretty sure it's written as a cautionary tale.

[–] Livana_Faolan 7 years ago

I believe it has something to do with the fact that Mr. Mulvaney couldn't stand the sight of Marianne anymore, because it hurt him too much.

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[–] mythcalledlove 7 years ago

Thats the way things were done. Families try to put the "shame or soiled" family member at a distance. Send them far away and when anyone ask they try to lie and mk it seem as all is well but the whole town really knows they whisper and gossip and become a"urban myth" story. Instead of rallying around and showing love for their family member they cast them out