Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-27818776-20151117132852/@comment-27818776-20151119132541

Have you ever read the book or watched the film? What's your opinion of her? Personally, I see her as the most evil woman that I've ever watched in a horror film, or read about. In the book, she doesn't have a Freudian excuse; she claims that her husband beat her, and that's where she started to think that women were scum. However, we're never given any physical evidence of her husband beating her (mostly because by the time that the girls come to live with Ruth, her husband had already left), so, at best, she could be lying. The film/book never presents her in a sympathetic light, nor does it try to excuse her behavior towards Meg.

Pretty much, I apologize for adding her to the "Knight of Cerebus" category a few months ago. I mostly added her, because if you were to watch the film 9or read the book), it starts out lighthearted enough to make you think that it's one of those sugarcoated 50s movies, but Ruth slowly got darker once Meg and Susan arrived to her house. By the time that she severely spanks Susan for her sister's 'disobedience," the film takes on a more dark tone as the façade of sentiments slowly recedes.