The fire scene?


Why did Serena set the house on fire? Was it because she lost her husband or was it knowing the fact she lost her child and couldn't bear children and losing the courage to keep going on?

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Im not sure, what I got from it was that she always felt like she should have died in that fire that killed her family and now that she has lost everyone she loved she has no point to live so killed herself in the way she was always meant to die i guess
But Im not sure after reading all the comments about the book being different.

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Thanks

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Her entire family was killed in the 1918 flu epidemic. She became sick as well but "refused to die" (she was very strong-willed, even at that age). Afterwards, she told the foreman to burn the house to the ground when the standard practice back then was to burn only the sheets and mattresses. No one died in the fire.

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In the book, perhaps. In the movie it's clearly explained (more than once) that her family died in the fire.

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I finally worked up the courage to watch this movie; it was not as violent as I thought it would be. Serena never seemed to be in her right mind from the start and she just slipped further and further into insanity as one thing after another went badly for her. The scene where the police bring her husband home and she just stares like a madwoman into the mirror was chilling. But I just didn't buy the ending. Even insane, who does that? A political martyr, she isn't.

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She had an obsession love with her husband. He not only found out what she was really like but now he was dead, too. She committed suicide now that he was gone, her baby was gone and now the land would be taken away too. There was really nothing left for her.

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Oh so crazy obsession syndrome

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