Love doesn't include beating you when you're down. If you think what Rosetta is doing to Maxi is love, then I'm sorry but it isn't. Love is supporting the other, love is unconditional, love is wanting what is best for the other person. Rosetta's cruel words aren't love - it's more like she's angry at Maxi for screwing up her chance at freedom and is lashing out at her. This is just verbal abuse.
This is especially true after reading into the later chapters, when both sisters meet again. Rosetta starts off speaking to Maxi almost as an equal until Maxi tells her something she doesn't like. Then, her attitude does a complete 180, and she disregards Maxi as a coward again.
Literally reading the novel had me shook.. ugh i hate her but i get that they're traumatized and they coped differently. still, she was still more privileged than maxi. i do not intend to downplay her trauma but her habit of talking down on maxi is irritating the f*ck out of me. she watched everything maxi went through, she must've unconsciously been thinking she's far superior and more self aware, smarter than maxi is. she's just like her father in a way. that's sad.
Exactly! She could've grown up being a supportive sister to Maxi. They could've been able to rely on each other. And instead, Rosetta just adds to Maxi's misery. Being traumatized doesn't excuse your own acts of cruelty. They'd all (Rosetta, Maxi, and Riftan) would benefit so much from therapy, tbh.
That's true.. i understand not being able to associate with her but to look down upon her with cold eyes untill after she finally had her own life is just crappy
Well, I never said that what she's doing to Maxi is an act of love. I only said that she loves and cares for Maxi. We are forgetting the fact that they are broken and did not grow up receiving proper love so Rosetta doesn't know how to properly show her love. No. I'm not arguing but if you read the recent chapter you'll get what I mean.
Rosetta is not mean. I agree she could have used a softer tone on Maxi but she meant what she said. Her circumstances are not any better that's why she perfected herself knowing she would also be abused if she acted weak. She wished Maxi never returned to their home because she knows that her sister only suffer in that place. She cares for Maxi in her own ways and she loves Maxi.