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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I think having to survive the prison system for however long it was (I have had to return the book to the library) she would have to have developed cunning. I didn't see her as cunning when she was 16.
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I agree; I saw her trenchant comments as arising from her adult self and after much thought and revisiting and reevaluating her memories, because what else is Grace going to do in prison? I kept thinking of a favorite quote from Camus's
The Stranger:
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.
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Just as one example, by her own report she was entirely obtuse about what was going on with both Mary and Nancy at the time. (Assuming we believe her account; we never know for sure whether Mary lived or was a construct.)