Why would she do such a thing? She was heartbroken alright but why plan the death of people she doesn't even know. Am I missing something here? Her mother knew all the victims and their dead relatives, but Izzi didn't.
share*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* Izzy wrote the book but she didn't plan the murders- her Mother took that on herself because of her grief at her daughters death. Due to her grief she came to the conclusion when she found her daughters book that Izzy was suffering in Hell (just like in Dante)because she'd committed suicide and that she had to save her and pull her out (that's why the signature at each murder scene was 'Save Me'. Izzy had written that in her book although there is no reference to 'Save Me' in Dante). In her disturbed state she killed the people that she'd meet through the mortuary but claimed to Red that she didn't kill them, that she just met them along the way like in Dante where he mets the sinners in his journey through Hell. Izzy made the book because she had become so heartbroken and was looking for a way to express how lost she felt. She had no intention of murdering anyone, that was all down to her Mother because she'd been driven mad by her grief and thought that her daughter needed saving. Hope that helps!
shareOh, so Izzy cut and pasted pictures only of her ex-girlfriend, right? I thought I had seen pictures of the other victims too, but I guess I was wrong.
BTW, THANK YOU!
Yep that's it, so because Catherine broke her heart the whole thing snowballed from there.
And you're most welcome :o)
I have read Dante's book and the idea is roughly as follows:
The mother kills to pass through each section of hell, dishing out the punishments that match the sin (so to speak), this goes on untill she gets to the wood of suicides where she believes her daughter to be, thus sacrificing herself through suicide to take her daughters place.
The book, practically covered with the words Save Me, was, in the mother's deranged opnion, a message from her daughter that she needed rescuing - which explains why the mother commits suicide at the same spot as her daughter...
Hi there,
I have also read Dante's book (I've read 'Inferno' several times and have also read 'Purgatory' and 'Paradise') and that is the general gist of what she was doing.
Just before she commits suicide and Red is trying to talk her down by saying that the rest of her family needs her, she replies 'they have each other, Izzy needs me.' So I think that she doesn't necessarily kill herself in order to take her daughters place, it's so she can be with her daughter.
But I think it's all open to interpretation and down to the individuals' opinion about what she meant.