After completing the novel A Home At the End of the World. I wasn’t that surprised by the fact that Clare left taking Rebecca. Didn’t everyone see that happening eventually? I mean come on, she was more interested in having a child than living with a bunch of men. Even through Clare hated Alice, they did have an awful lot of similarities. Alice would stay and home and care for Jonathan, while Ned would go to work. While Alice stayed at home she stayed in and had Jonathan tell her stories about what was going on in the world on the outside. Clare stayed at home and cared for Rebecca and Erich. While Jonathan and Bobby went to work in the restaurant. Clare would take naps with Rebecca and listen to her as she would tell her mother stories about what was going on in the world or at least the house.
I think that Clare thought she was doing the best thing for her child. Living in a house with a bunch of men that would go to work all day, and help mom take care of Erich. That would have been an interesting life to grow up in. Clare even says that Rebecca will go into therapy later in life.
While Clare was packing to go to ‘her mothers’ wasn’t interesting how she needed to bring everything, because if she didn’t her mother would go to Saks and buy new things. Jonathan asked her many times, you are only going for a couple of days right? Clare knew that she would be leaving and not going back, hence why she invited Bobby to go with them. All the meanwhile, Rebecca didn’t even want to get into the car.
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I completely agree that Clare leaving was not a surprise. I had a feeling it would happen. I even wrote about her departure in my blog. I also agree that Clare believed that she was doing the best thing for her child. She knew how it would look to bring up a child in a home with two men who work all day of which one is gay and who may possibly have AID’s