#but in this world he’s a cocaine addict and a mutiliator and an abuser. because his father signed his life away | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

laniidae-passerine · 1 year ago

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what I love about the Ushers is, yes, some of them didn’t deserve it. Leo was just any drug addicted asshole who treats the people around him like shit but he clearly cared about his family even when they hated him and he grew up around drugs and addiction. Tammy was emotionally and verbally cruel to Bill and coerced him into a life he didn’t want but she did love him no matter how hard she tried to hide it and she wanted to be a better person. Lenore was just a girl who hoped for a kinder world for her mother and herself, who did nothing wrong but trust in her grandfather. That’s the point. Some of the children are horrible and violent and unkind and some of them are just people, messy, disturbed people. They deserved a chance just like anyone else. But they don’t get one. When somebody gambles your life before it begins, before you’re even conceived, you lose. When we let the rich and the powerful play God and do awful things, the poison seeps all the way down. Even to the good ones. Even to ones who could have been good. Nobody ever wins.

#like that’s the tragedy!!! leo could have had rehab. tammy could have seen a therapist. lenore had a whole life ahead of her.#it could have been so good! Frederick could have been a dentist and a father and a husband and a kind man #but in this world he’s a cocaine addict and a mutiliator and an abuser. because his father signed his life away #that’s the unforgivable bit about the tragedy. not what could have the usher siblings been.#but what could their bloodline have been. what could the world have been. how long would Lenore have lived and been loved.#it isn’t their fault the contract was signed. but it is their tragedy.#tfothou #the fall of the house of usher #the house of usher

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