I think you're right about Rowan being a fundamentally more admirable character to Forest than Ginty - and that seems to me to come through strongly in FL, including this chapter, where we've already seen Ginty putting on a special voice about how Dirge for Fidele will always mean Jon to her now.
I would guess that the complexity is a side-effect here of the quality of Forest's writing, though in other places it might be intentional. I wouldn't quite go as far as to say that Forest sets Ginty up, but this is a scene where Ginty is being at her most Unity-ish whereas Rowan has just done something that will make a real difference to the family (however ill-advised we might think that is). I think Forest's nuancing is one of the wonderful things about her writing, and she's certainly interested in imaginative sympathy for characters who don't behave well (at the risk of mild spoilers, this discussion makes me think of the conversation between Patrick and Nicola about Lois in End of Term).
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Date: 2014-07-28 10:07 am (UTC)I would guess that the complexity is a side-effect here of the quality of Forest's writing, though in other places it might be intentional. I wouldn't quite go as far as to say that Forest sets Ginty up, but this is a scene where Ginty is being at her most Unity-ish whereas Rowan has just done something that will make a real difference to the family (however ill-advised we might think that is). I think Forest's nuancing is one of the wonderful things about her writing, and she's certainly interested in imaginative sympathy for characters who don't behave well (at the risk of mild spoilers, this discussion makes me think of the conversation between Patrick and Nicola about Lois in End of Term).