Ruminations: Moving on from the Harvest of Dismay

If you haven't noticed by now, the Dollanganger family series is all about reaping the harvest of the Flowers in the Attic saga, got me thinking about the power of moving on. Can the Dollangangers move beyond the planting of the seeds of dismay?

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past. As we've seen, old choices and frictions continue to haunt this family by way of their sons. But this last installment of the

I'm not sure if it's because I've lived with this family for the past four months or being ready to move on in some areas of my life, but I wonder if the Dollangangers can have any peace and evolve as a family. As you will continue to see in Seeds of Yesterday, Cathy and Christopher's children are living with the ramifications of their family's actions. The sons are actually reaping the consequences of decision their grandmother, Corrine, and great-grandparents made. Particularly for Bart, this is a huge factor. He continues to harbor disgust of both his parents, specifically Christopher, whom he doesn't see as his father. True enough, this is a twisted family tale with emotional blowback that I can't even imagine. But when does blaming the next or the last victim become a good enough reason to not move forward? Christopher and Cathy both decide to remain together, hiding their family relations, but they didn't get their by themselves. They had family members paving the way for their dysfunction. Evidently Bart doesn't see it that why and continues to berate them for their sin, begging the question of culpability and autonomy. Did they really have a choice in the matter? Would their decisions have been different if they hadn't been locked in the attic as children?

Either way, Bart doesn't care. Do you? Come back on September 29 for the review!