pirateshelly:

arcadiaego:

pirateshelly:

I had forgotten that BOTH of Eleanor’s male love interests have disgustingly out of character hallucinations of her at different points in the story. One sees her as a dangerous siren to be conquered, the other see’s her as a passive silent wife. She deserved so much better.

She did, but then, I thought that was the point. It’s not out of character for them, in fact, it speaks volumes about the way men twist women’s behaviour.

 (I also thought that the second Eleanor was actually silently judging WR, but I still don’t think any Eleanor would ever appear to that moron.)

Oh yeah, I definitely see it as an intentional point the writers are making about both men (and men in general) seeing her as a shallow archetype, who they think she is/want her to be rather than the actual person she is!

I agree that Rogers’ hallucination of her is him imagining her judging him, but at the same time it also shows how little he knew her that she’s sitting in a corner knitting.