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Jenna asked this question about Tangerine:

Still can't get over why she didn't request to see Youssef in prison with the police and her aunt present to prove she was not the girl he was referring to....one of the many things that drove me nuts about Alice, she was so helpless the whole time I wanted her to have a surging moment of smarts to get herself vindicated! But seeing how the book begins, are we to assume she was always prone to going mad?

Dona Alice ruined this opportunity by going to see Youssef in prison alone. After telling him why she was there, Youssef told Alice that the authorities wo…moreAlice ruined this opportunity by going to see Youssef in prison alone. After telling him why she was there, Youssef told Alice that the authorities would not believe him; that he was trying to save his own skin. He even told her that the authorities would question why she went to visit him in prison since she claimed to have never met him or even know who he was. They would assume that she went to visit him because she wanted him to lie for her. It is after this visit that Alice returns home instead of to the hotel with Aunt Maude. Feeling trapped, because she relizes that even if the police were to believe that she did not actually murder John, she was guilty of collusion, she begins to destroy the apartment. Exhausted by her anger she goes to bed. She is awakened the next morning by the police pounding on the door, Lucy/Sophie/Alice has set sail for Spain and the opportunity is lost. (less)

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