I made a similar comment to this earlier as I am going through the back posts - I think you are right that Edwin is an odd and rather conflicted character. It says in AF's introduction to the Girls Gone By editions that he was originally going to a wife-beater - before AF decided that this would be going too far and he could just be really bad tempered and wind everyone up. I think this tension between bad Edwin/OK but really bad-tempered Edwin remains. Apparently in an earlier version of Run Away Home he beats Charles and Rose, upsetting Karen. He clearly does have some fatal attraction for her though. Personally, I hope she does eventually go back to University and doesn't spend her whole life as a housewife do to his rather dubious attractions.
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:20 am (UTC)