Mark: Mr. Dubus, your stories seem to be dealing with some real inner turmoil issues your charactors have to deal with. In Particular, in Rose, Rose is faced with a real test of her charactor when she sees her husband hit her children, what message are you attempting to convey to your readers?
Andre: Well Mark, I'm glad you asked. I thouroughly enjoy challenging the readers as they read as well. I can almost pictue many of my readers, (after observing Rose watch her husband hit their son, and do nothing), just yelling at their books. However it conveys a stronger message. My readers may not understand the repercussions of each step that could have potentially have been taken. I wanted to portray Rose in a good light, as one who wanted her marriage to work and really believed her husband wasn't a terrible guy at first. The reason I let the story drag on is to develope the depth of the struggle of the decision Rose faced.
Mark: This is true, Mr. Dubus. We really do get a great insight into Rose, and the journey through her decision.We get to know alot about her, and when she finally ends up killing her husband, did you think that this gives the readers some justification to Rose's passiveness?
Andre: I thought having Rose run her husband over with the car would be a good climactic culmination of the events preceeding it. You would expect her crime to be one of passion and pent up anger where she would violently kill him with a knife or someting... granted her continually backing up and going forward over his body is similar... however i felt having her run him over was a way to indirectly do it, the way she indirectly caused her children pain by passively doing nothing about him beating them.
Mark: Well I truly do appreciate the oppritunity to sit with you and discuss the inner workings of "Rose". Have a nice day.
Andre: Thanks you too.
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