I have seen this movie several times since I was a child(I'm 36 now) and I still can't figure out why Poo hates Garp so much that she would actually kill him. Seeing Garp and her sister have sex didn't bother her at the time so what's her deal? Anyone?
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She was one of those Ella followers. Thats why she could only say ARP! instead of GARP! at the funeral. She hated him because he wrote the book.
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When Pooh's dad was trying to take a family picture, he had such a face...never even smiled.
She seemed extremely unhappy, maybe medically depressed. There must've been a lot of pain and hurt inside of her, probably against the male sex in general. And Garp was just one specific example why she felt that way-even when they were kids. I think that's at least partly why she ended up as a Ellen Jamison.
I have often wondered that myself. I personally think it was jealousy. I think she had a crush on Garp from childhood. I disagree with her not minding Garp having sex with her sister. In that scene, she set him up to lose his current girlfriend, and make his life as difficult as possible.
Ultimately, in the end, I think she came to the realization that no matter what she did, Garp would still prosper (and not be with her.)
That's my 2 cents...
read the book, it's pretty obvious there.
share....heres what answers dot com wrote about POOH
Bainbridge Percy
Bainbridge (Pooh) Percy is the odd and disturbed youngest child of the Percy family. She wears diapers until she is a teenager. For some strange reason, she bears a grudge against men in general and Garp in particular. She recognizes Garp at his mother's funeral and alerts the other women. Garp is forced to flee. Pooh later becomes an Ellen Jamesian and murders Garp. After being institutionalized for many years, Pooh is finally rehabilitated. She works with retarded children and, at the age of fifty-four, she has her own child. She dies of a stroke after a long life.
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Yeah, basically she never really liked Garp, but it made things worse when he wrote that book about Ellen James and as a follower and seeing him at his mothers memorial, she shot him in the end!
shareYeah, no mystery here. She was an Ellen Jamesian, they all hated Garp. Plus she prolly was into him and his lack of interest drove her to the cult.
shareI never read the book, but I think it's interesting to take note of when she shows up in the movie. I think a lot of it does go back to a jealousy type theme. She sees him with the prettier girl and tries to damage his relationship. She sees him at his mother's funeral where she wanted to kick him out because he was a man, also maybe a jealous thing because all these women loved his mom and he actually had the honor of being her son and such. Also at the end. And I think that's the big jealousy thing.
I mean he goes through a lot in that movie with a lack of attention for his writing at the beginning at least, marriage turmoil, loss of a son, and losing his mother. And yet at the end it seems as if everything will still work out. He and his wife somehow are still happy and they have 2 healthy kids. It's almost as if Pooh shows up at the end to be like oh no, there's no way you can resolve like this. I won't let you. You can't have this happy ending. Which I suppose is a jealousy thing as well. But also makes it more disturbing.
In the movie the only things I saw were:
1) Pooh saw Garp playing 'husband & wife' with Cushie and had Bonkers attack him
2) Pooh then saw Garp and Cushie getting it on in the woods
3) She hated Garp as a feminist
In the book it is explained that Pooh blamed Garp for the death of Cushie.
I just finished the book last night. It's awesome! I'm revisiting the movie tomorrow to compare and contrast (I haven't seen it in almost 20 years)
Anyhow, in the book Cushie dies in childbirth. Pooh somehow convinces herself that Garth is responsible for her death because of all the sex the two of them had in college. In fact, after she points out Garp at his mother's memorial she shouts something to the effect of: "He murdered my sister! He f_ucked her to death!"
Not to mention she became an Ellen Jamesian soon after and once Garp published his huge rant against the Ellen Jamesians (I'm assuming this happened in the movie) it was like fuel on the fire.
It's not explained any more than that in the novel. I found myself flipping back through the pages to see if I missed something.
I think it's safe to say she was crazy. She wore diapers until she was 12 (...And in fact may still be wearing them... was a line Garp thought when he saw her at the memorial).
I always assumed that she was simply a homely girl who liked Garp but knew she could never capture his attention so she basically stalked him and punished him whenever she saw him with another girl. Seems more complex than that now but I think that's the just of it. And as creepy as it is, I've seen examples of similar behavior before in reality.
shareShe struck me as being extrememly bitter over being the "ugly" sister. I was struck by what her mother said just before the family photo was taken, "Smile Pooh or you'll never get a husband!". That remark alone could've turned her into the raving feminazi she became.
shareShe struck me as being extrememly bitter over being the "ugly" sister. I was struck by what her mother said just before the family photo was taken, "Smile Pooh or you'll never get a husband!". That remark alone could've turned her into the raving feminazi she became.
Beware the evil ravages of Western feminism... Another cancer to today's many social plagues. Hurts not only men but women too.
shareWith a name like Poo, wouldn't you be bitter?
shareShe hated him because he had a Y chromosome.
shareI think she's more of a symbolic character. To me, she represents chaos. She is the embodiment of the BAD THING that happens to good people. Not that Garp and his loved ones were saints; but...
She is the avenging angel of death coming without warning. A theme Irving loves.