This week, I read three more chapters in Picture Perfect. The search for Cassie's memories and true identity is still a major part of her life, but she quickly grows close to her husband, finding a safe place in all of the mess that her life has become. Their intimacy quickly returns and they feel comforted by each other's presence, but there's a slight evidence of distress due to her recognition of whether or not he's acting. She realizes this as he calls her beautiful, that he's acting, and when he admits that he "was" going to tell her about her job in UCLA.
There are some traces of codependence in his relation to her. He believes that "he would cease to exist" "if she was gone, if she ever left" (65). He deeply relies on her presence and her love to hold him together, to make him something. But he's never admitted that to her, and she believes that she's the luckiest girl in the world, for marrying and loving the most popular man in America (he's a famous actor). Their lack of communication coupled with their extreme dependence on the other for some sense of self-worth is not a healthy combination, and yet seems to be the fuel that their relation lies on.
But as Cassie is returning to her own reality, she is remembering her past, and her childhood friend Connor. She has several dreams about him, and begins to wonder what happened to him. One time, they dug up the bones of their old pet dog and she was utterly fascinated, while he was disgusted and queasy. That night, the night she realized her calling in life, she realized her affection and devotion to Connor, and under the moon lite sky, he kisses her for the first time. And her flashback ends, eerily stating that that was the last time she had ever seen him alive.
Cassie's past is coming alive in her, and she's reliving all the pain and sorrow that made her who she is today. So how does that affect her relationship with her husband? And how will it affect his attachment to her? What does her past mean in this present?
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