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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 351351" data-attributes="member: 57984">Some have argued Jock loved Ellie more than she did him. I'm not sure I could say that for sure -- and that opinion probably depends on which character one relates to most.We all know women have often accepted men into their ... ummm... lives due to a desire for resources -- that's probably biological: women have to physically have the children and then are the predominant caregivers (even if the father is present and conscientious). So women are going to need those resources --- even today, when women are doing as well or better financially than men, women still want to pair or marry "up" with a guy with even greater resources. So it's hardwired into our biology. Also hardwired is a man's romantic -- or sexual -- interest in women. (Well, some men...) And that's designed to spread his DNA (eeew!) in order to create offspring -- requiring her cooperation, if she'll supply it.So are such relationships mutually exploitive by nature? Does the reproductive needs of the species justify that exploitation? Does justification even matter?Seeing how the sausage is made, pardon the expression, is rarely pleasant. But most people still eat it.Are Jock & Ellie metaphoric for the human condition, at least as it pertains to heterosexual pair bonding? Does he "love" her more because he wants her cooch? And does she love him less because she wants his wallet? Both are in the pants, after all.And is true love a real thing that transcends sex and money?Ellie's reaction when Jock died seems to suggest that she cared a lot about her first husband. And it certainly wasn't about her concerns over resources, since she would obviously inherit a queen's ransom.Was it 50/50? Or 60/40? Or 30/70?Ellie seemed to have self-esteem issues and lived in a certain degree of denial. Even JR said, "Mama, you don't know half of what Daddy did when he was running this company!" (or words to that effect). So Jock was capable of certain things Ellie was not, and things she didn't want to know about -- and on the rare occasion she spoke up about that, she used the word "disgust!"Was she wrong to feel that way? Did Jock's supposedly superior love for her neutralize the significance of his Mephistophelean tendencies?Who was obliged to love whom more? And who should've?"There better not be another one, Jock..."<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/ee/64/68ee6446791e6195f905c9158f8e4dbf.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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