This thread is confusing me - it's making me crazy. Perhaps it was the delivery of the line, but I just am not recognising what, beyond an instinctive feeling of suspicion, makes her think this. Paige leads a confusing life, she may have feelings of being lost and may feel like things around her are getting more complicated, and yes this 'unknown' that she can't put her finger on is very unsettling to her and rightfully so. But I do think she's being a drama queen if she genuinely thinks her life is "crazy." Maybe she just used that word to get Elizabeth to sit up and pay attention?
She's obviously right to feel this way (confused and lost) and maybe it's cos she lives in a household where she feels that she can't ask for answers and or demand the truth about her suspicions with her parents. I never really thought about it but I think some teenagers' default reaction would be to just pester their parents for answers rather than going on a hidden quest not even confiding in your brother about what you're feeling. So yeah Paige is probably feeling dazed with bottled up feelings. But it's still different from saying that the sheltered life your parents have created for you is becoming crazy and uncontrollable and damaging and ....
I definitely agree with what you are saying about how all this stuff (separation + aunt) came out of nowhere and all at once and shocked her. I mean at the end of the day, most parents do keep things from their children, in order to protect them, and give them the happiest care-free life possible. So the fact that Paige sees through this and does feel something bigger is going on shows her intuitiveness.
Still for example with the fact that Philip had to keep up his relationship with Martha during the 2 months that Elizabeth was away, we are still supposed to suspend our disbelief because if Paige had realised her dad left every other night and didn't come back till morning, I couldn't believe that she has stayed silent - to her brother, to her father and to her mother about it....This conversation is doing my head in. I could accept calling her life 'crazy' if it was an conscious exaggeration on Paige's part but if it wasn't, I would disagree with her definition of crazy.
Re: Paige's "Crazy Life"
Perhaps it was the delivery of the line, but I just am not recognising what, beyond an instinctive feeling of suspicion, makes her think this.
Paige leads a confusing life, she may have feelings of being lost and may feel like things around her are getting more complicated, and yes this 'unknown' that she can't put her finger on is very unsettling to her and rightfully so. But I do think she's being a drama queen if she genuinely thinks her life is "crazy." Maybe she just used that word to get Elizabeth to sit up and pay attention?
She's obviously right to feel this way (confused and lost) and maybe it's cos she lives in a household where she feels that she can't ask for answers and or demand the truth about her suspicions with her parents. I never really thought about it but I think some teenagers' default reaction would be to just pester their parents for answers rather than going on a hidden quest not even confiding in your brother about what you're feeling. So yeah Paige is probably feeling dazed with bottled up feelings. But it's still different from saying that the sheltered life your parents have created for you is becoming crazy and uncontrollable and damaging and ....
I definitely agree with what you are saying about how all this stuff (separation + aunt) came out of nowhere and all at once and shocked her. I mean at the end of the day, most parents do keep things from their children, in order to protect them, and give them the happiest care-free life possible. So the fact that Paige sees through this and does feel something bigger is going on shows her intuitiveness.
Still for example with the fact that Philip had to keep up his relationship with Martha during the 2 months that Elizabeth was away, we are still supposed to suspend our disbelief because if Paige had realised her dad left every other night and didn't come back till morning, I couldn't believe that she has stayed silent - to her brother, to her father and to her mother about it....This conversation is doing my head in. I could accept calling her life 'crazy' if it was an conscious exaggeration on Paige's part but if it wasn't, I would disagree with her definition of crazy.