“Every time things get hard, you retreat right back to this place. Thinking of Arthur as this monster, ignoring all of the lessons you’ve learned. Everything you’ve learned about what power really means.” “And by lessons, you mean a pile of words to make victims sound like customers.”
This exchange is emblematic of the primary frustration with this character and the stories she engenders. Every time she comes close to being relatable, she shifts into hysteria or behaves irrationally. Weirdly, it's like the author seems to see how he's failing the character. He has another character point out that none of the lessons she learns ever seem to stick.
