Nice take
. Even if that is all 100% true, it still does not negate anything I wrote, it still was her choice, so yeah blame is on her.
Laying aside my new theory, which casts Hutch in a less sympathetic light, as I have read through different people's take on the betrayal in the story, it seems to me that those who have a stronger belief that a husband and wife are family, tend to be harder on Vivian for the betrayal. This has been my attitude as well. If we look at the opinions here, some people rationalize the cheating, others praise it and seem to think she is entitled to cheat if she did not feel satisfied, others condemn her cheating as a terrible betrayal. I think most people are against betraying and harming family, but in a world where marriage is so easily discarded it makes sense that a lot of people would not make that connection emotionally or psychologically. By the way, I am not judging anyone in this forum by saying this, it is just my subjective opinion based on what I am reading. What I will say is that in the US, despite marriages breaking up all the time, legally a person's spouse is considered to be their closest relative. For example, if Vivian got into a car accident, fell into a coma, and did not have a will, Hutch would be the person that would decide to keep her on life support or terminate her life support. Usually he would have more say in that situation than Vivian's parents, her son Sawyer, or her siblings. That had me thinking.
Imagine a scenario where Vivian was in a coma for several weeks. The doctor presented the choice of keeping her on life support, or terminating it. He gave the following possible outcomes.
A. Vivian might make a full recovery, but it is looking less and less likely the longer she is in the coma.
B. Vivian might never wake up, and this possibility increases the longer she is in a coma.
C. Vivian might wake up, but the longer she is in a coma, the more likely she will be a vegetable. She will be able to know what is going on around her, but won't be able to move or communicate.
D. Vivian might wake up, but be so crippled that she will need a lot of people to take care of her for the rest of her life, and the longer she is in a coma the more likely this will be the outcome.
We know that Christian is not married to Vivian, so he wouldn't be in the position to make this choice, but people have talked about Vivian choosing Christian over Hutch for various reasons, and on different levels (fucking Christian, leaving Hutch, etc). So, for the sake of argument, we will say that whoever Vivian chose would be the one to make the decision.
Who do you think would be more trustworthy to make the decision, Hutch or Christian? This is directed towards the forum, not JoeBlogs specifically.
