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Charlotte+#65287;na me

posted 19 years ago by kateinzaghi
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I felt cold when I saw Charlotte＇name appears in the wall before she was killed

That's why I think she was already dead. I believe at the time she had been having a relationship with Ben, she was dead and was his conscience. But Ben believed he killed her when actually the caretaker did and was shown carrying her body downstairs.

Any other takers on this theory?

[–] bjossa10 17 years ago

I think that Charlotte was a figment of his imagination or some kind of ghost. He either made her up in his mind to help him cope with the trauma he suffered emotionally and physically. I think this because he mentions having an aunt named charlotte who was nice to him and his imaginary charlotte was summoned because it was his way of coping or It could be a beautiful mind scenario, and I am not implying he was schizophrenic but that all the people he socialized or had contact with were only seen by him.

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[–] speedo58 11 years ago

The caretaker mentions that the orderlies in the past wrote the names of the dead that they brought down to the morgue on the wall. I think the caretaker killed Charlotte, but we assume when we see "Charlotte" written on the wall that Ben wrote it there, and that Ben wrote it there after killing Charlotte. Is it plausible to the story that Ben had worked at the mental hospital as an orderly while in college rather than being an inmate all his life?

[–] jenniclaire-1 16 years ago

I really like it! In fact i am sorry I didn't think of it. the caretaker seemed to be there as just an old fashioned McGuffin, but: what was Ben locked up at the end for if not for the murder of Charlotte?