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What did Tobias do to all the characters in the OG trilogy? He placed a game in front of them, and proceeded to play them from beyond the grave. The funny part is that the characters could have stopped at any given time, but willingly chose to continue (despite them complaining about it). To be completely honest, there is no reason as to why they needed to know why Avery got the inheritance. Yes that's the storyline, but if you think about it nothing bad would have happened if Avery had just stayed in the house for the year and didn't play Tobias's game. They have nothing to gain/lose by knowing, everything was still left to Avery and nothing for the Hawthornes regardless on them playing the game.

Avery and the Hawthornes are doing the same thing, but they seem to be very oblivious about it. The Grandest Game is about giving people a chance to win 17 million dollars by winning the game, but the people in the game have legitimate reasons to play. If Lyra doesn't play she'll lose her family home/not be able to go to college, if Rohan doesn't play he'll lose the Devil's Mercy etc. Point being Rohan and Lyra have things to lose if they don't play the game. I know someone who works in Public Trustee (dealing with wills and stuff) and they said something regarding their clients "Money brings out the worst of people". If you place 17 millions dollars on the line, realistically people will do terrible things to get it, hence the mishaps in the story.

I made a post about how I didn't like TFG, one thing I didn't mention was that none of the characters seemed to learn anything from the trilogy. I thought by the end they would understand that not everything is a game, you can't do whatever is takes to win, fighting dirty is wrong regardless on if you win, you can't treat people like a pawn/game etc. By the end, nobody has learnt their lesson, and because they didn't learn anything, the cycle is repeating itself. What angers me is that Lyra has done the right thing throughout the entire story and she is directly affected by the Hawthorne's tone deafness and ignorance when it comes to wealth. It also angers me that people like Lyra exist in the real world, we have so many billionaires and the working class are paying the price for it. I get that it's just fiction, but then again in someways, fiction mirrors the real world.