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I was really confused by the ending with Charlie attacking her & seeming to have gone mad, almost an entirely different dog - does anyone have any theories about this? Is it some kind of metaphor or something?
Katelyn I think instead of viewing the book as a novel, it should be seen as a thriller, or even supernatural? Like Vesta was clearly losing it towards the en…moreI think instead of viewing the book as a novel, it should be seen as a thriller, or even supernatural? Like Vesta was clearly losing it towards the end, and part of the suspense of the book was the tension. Her relationship with her dog was the only 'real' thing she had left, and the only thing readers have. It worked for me, to a certain extent. I could understand a young dog like Charlie (who was a mutt, he could have been born to feral parents) to have maybe gone a little feral while being away for the day, or maybe he was bit by something rabid.
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Death in Her Hands
by Ottessa Moshfegh
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