Shaina Fewell Annotation

We thought it could be interesting to have Lizzie observe some of the drawings that Brianna was doing as a sort of therapy, to work through the aftermath of her assault. Without the context of having seen much art, Lizzie is disturbed by the dark images and interprets them as Bree being possessed, but the meat of the scene is Lizzie’s question about whether Brianna can forgive her father. It was important to delineate that although Brianna might forgive him for what he did to Roger, she was extremely wounded by the things Jamie said to her—things she felt that Frank would never have said—and thus, we drive a wedge into the newly forming relationship between Brianna and her 18th century father, who loves her deeply. Even though Jamie is a progressive man, sometimes his 18th century values can cause pain to those he cares about.