As for me, when I thought about how Ben would deal with his mother's death and father's abandonment, I sort of automatically assumed that he'd handle it the same way adult Fraser would- you know, stoically and politely. Of course that couldn't really be the case- no six year old is that controlled and repressed. So at first I was shocked by the sheer amount of cursing, hurting, rage here, but it makes perfect sense really.
What's really sad about it, though, is to think that even adult Fraser needs to feel like that sometimes, but he'd never let himself, would he?
Also, naming his grandparents George and Martha made me think of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' for some reason, which just added another layer of fucked-up-ness to the whole thing.
no subject
As for me, when I thought about how Ben would deal with his mother's death and father's abandonment, I sort of automatically assumed that he'd handle it the same way adult Fraser would- you know, stoically and politely. Of course that couldn't really be the case- no six year old is that controlled and repressed. So at first I was shocked by the sheer amount of cursing, hurting, rage here, but it makes perfect sense really.
What's really sad about it, though, is to think that even adult Fraser needs to feel like that sometimes, but he'd never let himself, would he?
Also, naming his grandparents George and Martha made me think of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' for some reason, which just added another layer of fucked-up-ness to the whole thing.
Anyway, I'm blown away here.