Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27729149-20151204153148/@comment-27818776-20160118153221

Another example was with Aunt Ruth Chandler from The Girl Next Door. The novel hints that Ruth was abused by her husband, and he eventually left her to take care of their children. You could also argue that she was getting mentally unhinged as the novel goes on, but she is, of course, sane enough to still have a clear grasp on morality as she tortures her niece, Meg. As for her children, she resents them, and manipulates them into torturing Meg under the guise that they were playing "the Game." Ruth grew to despise women, due to seeing her father abuse her mother. She hates women, thinking that a woman was cursed to bare children.