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« on: March 13, 2011, 11:15:04 PM »
I agree generally with everything MB's said here. Gregory's motivation isn't just to have rich bosses and to please them, by treating them nicely. He's consumed with bringing down the high and mighty, who think they're so much better than he is. At the point in the story, Trask has total control ober the heir to the family fortune, his competition, and the object of his rage, because Gregory needs and supposedly deserves the Collins fortune. Since he's so humble and holy and everything.
Trask isn't going to operate according to sensible, detached, calculated plans. He's a maniac. He's not going to have someone like Jamison in his charge and not put him through hell. He has gut level rage motivating him.
Child abusers often count on the lack of credibiliity of the child. In 1897, a child may very well have had no credibility at all, when opposed to any kind of authority figure, especially a minister. Abusers love acting vicious in private where only the abusee can see, then acting all sweetness and light when anyone else is around. That's how they control the situation.