ZKWNordman
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Perhaps the deal with Frank is that he knows Brianna will never leave him and that’s enough for him. Maybe his abusive side is one that can’t handle having a wife who succeeds at more than he does, and who might in his mind leave him one day. Maybe that’s his trigger. He likes being the hero. The knight. I don’t think he abuses Brianna. I don’t think she is in danger of ever hitting his triggers.
I think the sums part of it up pretty nicely. I’ve theorized before that Frank is as mentally ill as Brianna. In his case, part of him was stunted when he was 12 (the year Brianna was born!) he was the last person to see his sister alive. She’d been warned by lifeguards to get out of the water. She couldn’t swim. She drowned. He must have some lingering guilt. Add to this that he was a pubescent boy going through lots of chemical changes, and you have the makings for lifelong neuroses.
Frank is a child and Brianna is pretty much the wacky invisible friend that he created.
I think the sums part of it up pretty nicely. I’ve theorized before that Frank is as mentally ill as Brianna. In his case, part of him was stunted when he was 12 (the year Brianna was born!) he was the last person to see his sister alive. She’d been warned by lifeguards to get out of the water. She couldn’t swim. She drowned. He must have some lingering guilt. Add to this that he was a pubescent boy going through lots of chemical changes, and you have the makings for lifelong neuroses.
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