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![]() ![]() ![]() I'm so sorry that I couldn't match up and fit your expectations for you. I hope it's better than this life I hope it's not as sad as this life. I hope in the next life I will have a better childhood, parents, and friends. “I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to stay long enough to graduate and get a job. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You see I can't even write this properly. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. ![]() “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. ![]() ![]() ![]() The generic character names John and Mary suggest that we are all just one evil impulse or unspeakable tragedy away from becoming the monsters we would otherwise abhor.Īnd there is no shortage of monsters in Tell Me Your Secrets. And as the train headed toward The Hamptons, she began to sing softly.The lines between victim and villain blur throughout the series: Is Karen just as guilty as her boyfriend, or was she a victim of manipulation? Mary, who now runs a foundation to help find missing children, has become obsessive in her grief and rage (compounded by the fact that she refuses to believe that her daughter is dead, while the rest of her family begs for closure), which leads her to some heinous acts of her own. There could have been a terrible ending for her, but this was the happy ending she had prayed for. In the end, Ashley is shown to be traveling on a train to The Hamptons, where her father is staying, when Toni suddenly shows up to kill him. And I promise you that one day I'll get us out of here. We make him believe that we're really trying to help him. Gilbert releases her from the asylum as he believes she is cured. Gilbert she has finally accepted everything so she and Alette can get out of the asylum to kill her father, who is staying in The Hamptons for Christmas. This softer side of Toni is only a front to show Dr. ![]() Gilbert drains anger out of Toni by showing the news everyday, making Toni softer with each passing day. However, Toni is enraged when she learns that the woman her father is about to marry has a three-year-old daughter and is afraid that the girl would suffer the same fate she had. While the second alter (Alette) represents her feeling of shame and pain of being breached, thus developing into a source of console exhibiting warmth and motherly love who has good rapport with Ashley. The first alter represents her struggle and fear as a helpless child without sexual maturity, and (Toni) develops into a protective one and becomes murderous when encountered with similar conditions. The structuring of both the alters is very interesting. While living in Italy during her teenage years, she was once again assaulted by her father, leading to the creation of Alette. ![]() Steven, was the one who sexually abused her, causing her to develop Dissociative Identity Disorder resulting in the creation of the alter Toni, and becomes a thing of her mother's detest. Gilbert falls for her and during her crisis, he too feels her pain and wants to comfort her. In the asylum, Ashley is treated for MPD by Dr. She was sexually abused during her childhood, and this made her develop a strong hatred towards men. Ashley is committed to an insane asylum and in the course of therapy is introduced to her two "alters" and relives the horrific events that shattered her mind. Finally when David introduces Toni, the violent alter of Ashley, the court is convinced that Ashley is innocent. The second half of the novel deals with the trial, complete with endless squabbling between opposing psychiatrists as to whether or not MPD is real. "Ashley Patterson.Toni Prescott.Alette Peters, they're all the same fucking person."Īshley's father persuades an attorney friend, David Singer, to represent Ashley. At this point, it is revealed that the three women are three selves of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder (MPD). When a gift from one of the murdered men to Toni is found among Ashley's things, she is identified as the killer and arrested. Evidence points to the same woman being involved in all three cases. All the murdered men had been castrated and were having sex before being murdered. ![]() Two other murders have already taken place, with an identical pattern. She requests a police escort, but the next morning, the police officer assigned to this duty is found dead in her apartment. She thinks someone's broken into her house. She finds her house lights turned on when she returns from work, her personal effects in disarray, and someone has written "You will die" on her mirror with a lipstick. All three have issues with their mothers having told them they'd never amount to anything.Īshley fears that somebody is following her. Toni and Alette generally maintain a friendship, with Alette a calming influence, but Toni dislikes Ashley and criticizes her harshly. The three women do not get along very well, because of their dissimilar natures. The main characters of the book are Ashley Patterson, an introverted workaholic, her co-workers, Toni Prescott, an outgoing singer and dancer, shy artist Alette Peters and Ashley's father, Dr. Tell Me Your Dreams is a 1998 novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon on Dissociative Identity Disorder or Split Personality. ![]() |
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