Eros & Psyche Battling It Out

something deeply poetic about grandfather wicks playing the role of the snake in the garden in “tempting” grace to stay with the promise of inheritance, and then being the one to actually eat “eve’s apple” himself. all the while making everyone blame grace for sin that was entirely his own. the cross which grace tore down and which they never replaced so that they could hate and blame her for years to come, its absence ironically signifying the lack of faith and “god” in the church. wicks himself succumbing to temptation in the form of cyrus’ promise of his “cult of personality”, failing morally more than grace ever did. every man in the flock going out of their way to protect wicks for the same sin they’d been cursing grace over for years. samson who was betrayed not by his delilah, but by her faith in the misogyny that led to the diamond being in the crypt to begin with. samson who died because yet another man could not resist temptation……but somehow the apple is still “eve’s”

The fact that Father Wicks died because he was so consumed by the need to punish his daughter for her "sins" that he literally swallowed 'Eve's Apple' is maddening to me, literally named it for original sin but was so caught up in attaching that sin to femininity that he killed himself over it. Literally named his daughter Grace and never gave her a single spec of it. Literally ate the apple too. Literally.