Why didn't it ... [spoilers]
Why didn't the monster attack and take the daughter (Ella) during the scene when she out and apologized to the dead wolf? There was a full five minutes, but instead it just left her alone.
shareThe Monster is a representation/metaphor for addiction and alcoholism. In that scene when the Monster is watching her, it doesn't get her, yet, because she it will get later, when she grows up. Or at least that's the idea. Her mom is a alcoholic, so she is pre-disposed to being one too.
She is pre-disposed to becoming a savage victim of The Monster when she grows up. Of course as the movie goes on, we see that she fights it and overcomes it, but that's the thing.
Had the daughter already been on the sauce and an addict (unlikely at that point because she's still young), then the Monster would have attacked her.
cynmoss, i'm not saying what you wrote is incorrect but putting aside metaphors and all that and just taking it as a creature and the 2 female characters, why do you think the creature (again, who is for argument's sake not just a metaphor here) didn't kill Ella at that time. the creature definitely exists in the real life world of the characters (all the people it killed, etc.) so there is probably a instinctual/hunting(?) reason why the creature/animal didn't attack the young girl at that time.
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