![]() ![]() Perhaps we convince ourselves it is the truth, that our inability to declare it openly makes it a private truth. One lie begets another lie, begets another, begets a world of falsehood that assumes the status of alternative truth. Events concatenate, like ripples in a pool into which a body has fallen. Was the failure to leave their marriage partners the real betrayal? Or did the real betrayal lie in the fact that, ten years on, Jerry is more put out by the fact that Robert knew of the affair – and that Emma knew he knew because she told him – than the affair itself, now that the marriage is over anyway, and Emma is seeing a third man, Casey, who Jerry and Robert both despise?Ī precise, pursuant logic runs through Betrayal. When was the moment of real betrayal? When Jerry drunkenly declared undying love to his best friend’s wife behind his best friend’s back? When Emma responded? When they slept together for the first time? When they carried on sleeping with their marriage partners? When did Jerry know that Emma had told Robert, her husband, of their affair? When did Emma know that Robert knew, and decide not to tell Jerry, but continue it? When did Jerry decide he would not leave Judith, his wife, and was this the catalyst for Emma to say, while pregnant with her son, Ned, that Robert was the father, not Jerry? ![]()
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