It's the way she did it that irritates me...
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She really had no right to dump his stock just because he called her a crazy psalm singing skinny old maid. She didn't leave him a drop and does apologize after they are released from the reeds.
shareIt does rather defy belief that he would just sit there and let her do it.
shareHe was a drunk she tried to help him get sober shows she cared for him
share"It's not your property !!",..holds hand to head...
shareI think it's more that she didn't approve because it didn't fit with her uptight religious/moral outlook than because she was concerned about him. Also because she was mad that he didn't want to go down the river. She really had no right to do it.
I really didn't like the character. She came onto his boat, demanded of him that he risk his life going down a dangerous river and then destroy his boat and enter a war he was under no obligation to fight (by guilt-tripping him with patriotic nonsense; at least if it was that she wanted vengeance for her brother, I could understand that, but it wasn't), and then she dumps his property overboard because he wasn't inclined to do things her way? Really unlikable.
Actually, it WAS "his war" because Charlie was Canadian (in the movie -- but a born and bred Brit in the novel) and Canada was very much aligned with the UK in those days.
shareI think the point was that they both had flaws- but they grew and changed through their love and through their adventure.
She was sorry for what she did- but I think she didn't think about him as a real person at first and no understanding of him.
having read they synopsis of the novel, i see that in the book she does it whiel he is asleep,w hich makes a lot more sense.
shareShe'd be ffing overboard with a slit throat and a bottle of gin stuffed up her ar*e.
shareI'd like to know how much a bottle of Gordon's was in those days.
She must have dumped at least ten bottles there over the side...
Rose was pretty insufferable early on. Pretty sure some men in Charlie’s shoes would have marooned her.
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