#she didn't want Harlan to die… she did everything she could to save him

[desertowlet]

Marta Cabrera's good heart and kindness and attempts to making things right is just. breaks my heart and completely undoes me. the fact she still felt the need to help the very people who have done nothing but wrong her, who ignore her existence and only acknowledge her whenever was most convenient for them, and who tried to rob her of everything for the sole reason of serving themselves first and foremost. all the way to the point of telling her and saying she was not worthy of the very will Harlan himself wrote and insisting they were far more deserving of the inheritance of the very man they simply treated as an asset more than an actual family member. they used him at such an egregious degree, up until the point where he had to cut all of them off for their own good. yet somehow Marta, who has fostered a genuine and dear friendship with the elderly man she took good care of doesn't deserve this inheritance? she was far more deserving to attend Harlan Thrombey's funeral than his so-called family– the very family that did not even bother to invite her to said funeral. she was more family to Harlan Thrombey than anyone else in the entirety of the film and it shows with how he treats her– how much he cared about the well-being of Marta and her mother and sister, and making sure they were safe. Marta didn't even do any of this with the intention of getting a piece of the inheritance– she was just doing her job but so much more. she was an honest and kindhearted nurse who wanted to do the right thing for Harlan. she tried everything in her power to save his life once she realized she mixed up the dosages, and became inconsolable at the realization that she did not have the means to do that. Meanwhile Harlan's eldest grandson, his own flesh and blood, shamelessly plots and schemes his grandfather's murder in an act of cold vengeance when he realizes he can't have any share of the inheritance. Harlan may have cared about the Thrombeys and wanted to make things right before he passed, however there is a clear difference between them and Marta; she was Harlan's family.