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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 443150" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>Perhaps when Mack met Anne in the late-1960s, she wasn't this extreme person that we meet in the mid-eighties. She might have been a bit snooty and sheltered, but not snobbish and manipulative.  He is still seeing that earlier version in his mind, unable at that point to realize that things have happened in the interim that changed both of them (her more than him, though).  Nostalgia can make us blind sometimes.  We're left to wonder who would have changed more if they had remained together---would she have opted to become a middle-class wife and mother (like Karen!) or would he have given in to his in-laws' pressure to mold himself into a "more worthy" career man who would support his spoiled wife?  Either way, they would have made one another miserable trying to make the other happy.</p></blockquote><p></p>