Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151214160130/@comment-27818776-20151225041431

Well, I would say so, but a few things first:

1) There is a special edition that I will read at some point that revolves around Peggy and Darlin' about their lives with the Woman. It was added sometime later, so I don't know if this is canon or not. A brief skim through the epilogue doesn't really add any mitigating factors for Cleek.

2) As I have mentioned, the titular woman is cannibalistic, and she kills Cleek, his wife, and his son, though they were asshole victims, and she did plan on eating Darlin' but she decided to take her and her sister in. Brian was a budding misogynst who tries to have his way with the Woman, and he happily helps his dad feed Peggy's teacher to the dogs. However, he seemed to be misguided, trying to live up to his father. Belle, Cleek's wife, sat by letting her husband abuse the woman, as well as keeping quiet about Cleek raping Peggy.

Cleek has rape, murder, imprisonment, and child imprisonment under his belt. He had another daughter whom he locked up in the barn with the dogs, thus causing her to revert to a primal state. The girl had anophthalmia, a disorder that causes defect in the eyes. Cleek cares nothing about his family; he sees them only as possessions that he owns. He makes it clear that he's using his claim of trying to civilize the woman as a front so that he can rape and dominate her.