Yeah I feel like even blaming the sister is wrong since she also tried her best to survive, if she wasn't useful anymore to her ""dad"" he would've sold her off to some pervert
In the end the father is the true vilain, beat up his wife, children, gambled and sold his daughter to settle his debts, that's a real piece of shit and tells how damaging it is to grow up with an abusive family
exactly!! shes not likeable to the end tbh but i totaly understand how she turned out like this. but in other hand its also her selfish behavior that makes her propably never change. she is u thankfull to paula but deep down she must try to protect herself from grief and anger to herself. she typically hates others instead of blaming herself while paula only ever blames herself
on a psychological sence its very interesting how the pink sister made our paula beliefe shes faukt at everything abd as if she had a blind eye but in truth shes been always caring abd got beaten up the most of everyone since she meddle in between more. the sister is the igborant selfish one and that alone wouldn't be a bad thing being egoistic can be harsh but needed for survival but shes been emotionally torturing paula abd will never stop since thats the only way she can like herself. Alicia is the worst kibd if person if she would reflect just a little she could change but she never will change i feel so sorry for paula but she will heal from all this with time (novel readers opinion btw)