I was very surprised when I finally finished the book to
find out the ending. Because I had already assumed that Phyllis was going to
kill Walter, because she had already gotten what she needed out if him, but I didn’t
think that he was going to survive after she shot him in the chest. I also
wondered what would have happened if Phyllis didn’t kill him that night, and if
he got to her first. And if his plan to kill her would have succeeded.
As I was reading, it also took
me by surprised when Walter said that he was in love with Lola. Especially since
they have a HUGE age difference. And especially since he helped her stepmother kill
her father. Earlier in the novel, Phyllis mentioned that she was a nurse when
her husband had broken his leg, and I was wondering how come she wasn’t a nurse
anymore, and if we were ever going to find out why she wasn’t a nurse anymore. But
when I did find out, it shocked me that she killed Lola’s mom and so many people.
I laughed when in the book that’s why they mentioned her house as the “House of
death” because Phyllis obviously loved death. She loved the adrenaline rush that
it gave her when she killed someone.
To be honest, when
Walter was explaining how he was going to kill Phyllis, I was kind of rooting
for him. I was hoping that he could have taken her by surprised, and kill her first.
But she does play the role of the femme fatale and has a mysterious mind. Just
because of all those people she had killed before she even met Walter, and then
she used Walter to help her kill her husband. And after she and Walter killed her
husband, Phyllis was going to kill Lola. And Lola felt that coming, so that’s why
she had to move out. Because Lola had already suspected that she killed her
mother, and now her father too, and she knew that she was probably next.
The ending was
pretty interesting, because I thought for sure that Keys would put Phyllis and
Walter away, especially after Walter gave him all the details about how they
planned the murder of Mr. Nirdlinger. But he didn’t put them away, he let them
go. Maybe because he knew Walter was still in bad shape from the bullet wound,
and he just wanted him to suffer. At the very end of the book Walter and Phyllis
meet up again, and when he and she said “The captain knows us, I could tell by
his face when he came out of the radio room a little while ago. It will have to
be tonight”. When I read that I thought
that maybe they are planning to do another murder together. Since let’s face
it, that’s the only relationship they will ever have.
But maybe they won’t commit
a murder together again; maybe they will both realize that both of their lives
are going nowhere, and this is what they deserve to be miserable for the rest
of their lives.
My English teacher
told us the movie has a different ending the novel, and I am very anxious to
see the movies ending, and compare them.
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