She was sooooooooooooooooo anxious for Daphne to
read her book....where she basically slagged her off and made her sound like a vapid idiot. I don't get it, why would you write that about your best friend AND think she'd actually LIKE IT???
Makes NO SENSE.
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I'm wondering if there's more to it than that (and likely we'll see/hear about it when the two talk in the upcoming episode)... when Daphne starts reading it she reads "Chapter 4 - Daphne." That might just have been at the beginning of a book with more chapters, including likely at least one where she brings all the 'characters' together - there may well have been realization and resolution and the "beautiful waste" may have come out much stronger and grounded than ever by the end of the book (it's quite possible that Daphne was just so shocked and hurt by those first few sentences that she couldn't read anymore).
Keep in mind that she had everyone else read the book and all of them seemed to like it, even Raviva despite the far-from-immaculate portrayal of her that we as the audience were privy to.
Sofia narrates the whole show and I feel like her book (possibly 'series' of books given that she already published one) runs alongside the storyline of the show. If every character had a happy resolution all at once at the beginning, we wouldn't have a show at all - it would be a one-shot TV movie.
Likely, there's more that Sofia wrote but Daphne couldn't bring herself to read anymore and get there... (at the same time, I just kept thought 'wow Sofia just wrote what everyone in the audience - at least me - was thinking about these people)
At least that's what I hope they're doing with that... if all there is is the super-crappy portrayal and nothing more, yeah, why WOULD you want the person to read it?
The bigger question to me is why would you ever write a book based on your best friends...no scrap that,not even just based,basically analyzing every little detail about their characters,every flaw,every weak spot,every imperfection about them and their lives and put it in a book unless you're extremely mad at them and ready to move on?I mean,sure we all have thoughts and opinions about our best friends,we might even at some times offer them as constructive criticism or when extremely pissed at them,but surely if you feel the need to write it down a diary is a more suitable place rather than a book you actually plan to publish.And if you publish said book,why on earth would you publish it under your real name and not a pseudo name and actually insist your friends read it instead of hiding it as much as possible from them unless you're ready to risk those friendships??I seriously never will get how people think you can write about your best friends and portray them in whatever light you see fit and they should be cool with it cause "it's just fiction"...it's not if you're writing about me,you dope head!I can understand why Daphne is pissed,I would be extremely pissed and hurt myself,it's one thing to find out your best friend actually thinks that stuff about you,but she had to go and add insult to injury by basically telling the whole world!
It's interesting though that you mention the books being the spine of the show,I had a similar thought,only I was thinking that at the end of the show it would be revealed that the whole thing was Rosemary reading out of a book/diary Sophia kept since the day she was born,filling her in about all the crazy stuff her parents and their friends were up to while she was a little baby/child...I actually have a vague memory of Sophian narrating that first episode where Rosemary is back home with "Dear Rosemary" or something similar(which then gave me the diary published as book idea)
ah come to think of it I DO remember the 'diary' part... I also wonder if the 'Dear Rosemary' could also be a combination of Sophia's book (and any future books she does). but yeah definitely could be the diary more so than Sophia's books.
I see the point though of why would you be so brutally honest unless you hid their identities or your own...
I think it's fair to use life as inspiration for a fictional novel and in that sense I'm not surprised she would draw on her experiences and those of her friends'. But I do think she did them a bit of a disservice by making it so public that they are the ones it's talking about because it kind of does lay everything bare. Some level of anonymity should've been maintained to protect their identities. I mean upon reading it, surely Sophia's friends would've recognized themselves in each character, but the whole audience did not have to know that Daphne was "Daphne the beautiful waste."
Or at the very least, if you're going to use your friends' lives as material, be up-front with them about it. At least with Raviva while she tried to hide it at first (and lamely, I might add - "Ravina"? How much more obvious could she have gotten?) but upon finding out she talked to her about it and the two of them largely came to terms about it.
And she actually told Daphne she didn't write anything about her, which I'm sure just added to Daphne's feeling of betrayal. If you're oging to put not just your own views of your friends but their whole personal lives on blast like that and not even bother to make more substantive name changes, you should sit down and talk to them about it. Especially if you're going to be brutally honest.
I agree, I didn't understand why she would want Daphne to read her book. Sophia comes across as a spoiled and arrogant know it all. I don't think she's a good friend at all.
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