Alicia shoots Gabriel five times and then never speaks another word.įorensic psychotherapist Theo Faber is convinced that he can successfully treat Alicia, where all others have failed. She can’t bear the thought of worrying Gabriel, or causing him pain. The represents the moment when Theo realized that he didn't have anyone else to turn to.I love him so totally, completely, sometimes it threatens to overwhelm me.Īlicia Berenson writes a diary as a release, an outlet – and to prove to her beloved husband that everything is fine. This is when Theo went to his old therapist, Ruth's, home after he found his wife's inappropriate emails with a stranger. This is a few nights before he decides to break into Alicia and her husband's home to reveal to Alicia that her husband was unfaithful, with his wife. This represents the moment he decided that he needed that man dead, but had to be clever.

This is when Theo found out who his wife was cheated on him with. This is when Theo drugs Alicia after she told him how the night of her husband's murder went down.He didn't want Alicia to tell anyone that he was the intruder, so he drugs her, in hopes that she'll die or become mute. This was when she went quiet the first time, once again having similarities to Alcestis. This represents the first time Alicia was 'killed'. This is when Alicia's dad had said to Alicia that he'd rather would have had her die, rather than his wife, Alicia's mother. Alcestis represents Alicia's life shortly before she decided to pull the trigger. Similarly, Alicia's husband said that he wasn't ready to die when an intruder made him pick himself or Alicia to die. Alcestis is the painting Alicia painted while under house arrest after killing her husbandAlcestis is the story of a woman who was persecuted to death because her husband didn't want to die.

she threw herself toward me, hand outstretched like claws' You pretend to know me so much and be so wise.Alicia leaped from the chair. Alicia attacking Theo shows that she has anger in her heart, and she doesn't know how to express her emotions in a healthy way.'look at you, you can barely help yourself.

Alcestis painting the silent patient