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3. Red's Monologue
After the family breaks in, Pluto so gracious lights the fireplace, all parties are in their specific families, and Red begins her sermon.
She tells of how the four are “tethered.” They live the same lives but whereas Adelaide and her family have a loving and simple life Red and her family live a correspondingly wretched one. Her life is the brutal inverse of Adelaide’s.
“Once upon a time, there was a girl and the girl had a shadow. The two were connected, tethered together.” As we’ll discuss next, it was never supposed to be that way, or at least not for Red. “So, you see, the shadow hated the girl so much for so long until one day the shadow realized she was being tested by God.”