Whenever Lottie finds herself feeling particularly down, she fantasizes about killing Glenda, someone she interacts with often at her church. What did you think about this? Is it common, in your view, to imagine the death of someone you dislike?
I couldnât believe what she fantasized about. I donât think itâs common or normal to think about the death of someone you dislike.
I donât think its very common to fantasize about killing someone you dislike⌠I cant honestly imagine killing anyone, myself.
Ok, I can believe we have all been upset with someone and then thought negative thoughts about them. We might even go so far as to feel that if something did happen to them, that it was Karma. But to wish their death, yikes, no! Better to just ignore them and try not to interact.
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Lottie might have asked Glenda a few quip questions such as âAnd so?â âWhy are you upset?â âCan you clarify your position, feeling, thoughts?â
Or just give Glenda a snarky eye look. Move on.
I think it was very in character for Lottie to fantasize about killing Glenda, and it was funny to read. I canât imagine most of us walk around daydreaming about the death of someone we dislike, but I can imagine a serial killer like Lottie doing it.
Not common, but maybe thatâs what serial killers do. Fantasizing about the next kill gives Lottie a high. Yuck. But I think the interaction between Lottie and Glenda was funny and provided some levity between the murders.
Glenda was another pest swirling around Lottie.
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Imagine if everyone imagined the death of everyone they disliked? There wouldnât be anyone left! No, I donât think itâs common though there is a lot of hate out there these days. Scary to think about.
Letâs face it, Lottie was not normal and her actions bizarre. I personally feel it is not common to imagine the death of anyone, friend or foe. Lottie was one of the most unbalanced characters Iâve ever encountered in all my years of reading. For every one good, there were more bad. It scares me to have had to put together her characteristics for publication. What dark places one would have to go to do so. Any other thoughts on that process???
Agreed! I could almost picture one of those RAID commercials with Glendaâs face on one of the bugs and Lottie depressing the button and âPOWâ, no more Glenda - hahahaha.
As much as we would probably like certain people out of our lives, I dont think killing them is the way we relate to it. We may say things like âI would like to kill her offâ or âshe needs to dieâ or âI would kill herâ, but that is rhetoric. To actually imagine the death of someone you know is disturbed thinking.
I do not think this is typical behavior for most people. Lottie, however, has a severe anger management issue which goes back decades. She mentions earlier in the book how much she came to enjoy killing people who annoyed her. In some way, killing seemed to soothe and calm her.
No â I donât think itâs ânormalâ to want to fantasize killing people that irritate you. But Lottie was WAY from normal. By the time I finished the book, I was surprised she hadnât already offed her!
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If itâs a personal fantasy, anything goes. The problem is that Lottie has the desire and capability to act on her fantasies. I kept reminding myself this is book written for entertainment. Itâs not a manual for serial killers.
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I think it is common to wish someone was not in your life but it is pretty drastic to want them dead. However, with Lottie, it fits the character to want people that annoy her to be dead. With unending stories for Dateline, maybe it is more common to go that far than I think.
No, I donât believe itâs common or normal.
But Lottie is neither. She is a deeply disturbed but very intelligent, resourceful, and skillful psychopath.
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We all have Glendaâs in our life. There are people who just rub us the wrong way. However, I donât think itâs common to wish them dead. More likely, you just want them to leave you alone. Avoid them if you can.