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The horror and the glamour feed off each other in some diseased symbiosis necessary for making the town of Washington all at once riveting and disturbing.
No one in Washington wants to be part of a scandal. The consequences are fatal, socially and economically. Survival in this town requires playing chess, and playing it well. Every move calculated. Never being vulnerable, or someone will inevitably prey upon your weakness and turn it into shame. One wrong move could have you ostracized from all social events, removing any chance for leverage and power moves.
Cate isn’t conscious of the fact that what drives her to succeed is an intense need for vengeance against the men in her life even as she simultaneously romanticizes them, holding on to each one even after he falls off the pedestal where she had placed him—where she likes them.
Bunny felt like she was just beginning to understand the convenience of leaving the details out of history for the purposes of a narrative controlled by those who have something to hide born out of shame.
