"I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic." - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, p215 in The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (London: Virago, 2005).
I think that it is indeed the implication that Ida's seduced, and is vulnerable to seduction, which is the corollary of the Maya Angelou quote.
Forest plays with the tropes of children's fic; but poor plain Ida (I think there are class connotations to the name, as well) is both a throwaway character and a cliche as expressed in MatT.
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Date: 2014-06-30 03:22 pm (UTC)I think that it is indeed the implication that Ida's seduced, and is vulnerable to seduction, which is the corollary of the Maya Angelou quote.
Forest plays with the tropes of children's fic; but poor plain Ida (I think there are class connotations to the name, as well) is both a throwaway character and a cliche as expressed in MatT.