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Post by cwm on Mar 15, 2009 5:08:48 GMT -5
Aunt Josephine's fate is never actually made clear; it's strongly insinuated that she died, and her lifejackets are found at some point during TAA; this could be anywhere between a few days and a few weeks. Clearly the volunteers believe she is dead, however, according to Widdershins in TGG.
Aunt Josephine is the last death of a guardian until Dewey in TPP, and then only a 'surrogate' guardian; I suppose you could make a case for various other guardians then dying in the Hotel Denouement fire, but then the only other definite (we're assuming Josephine *did* die) guardian to die is Count Olaf in The End.
Note that once the Baudelaires begin going to guardians that are outright cruel and mean - Sir, Nero, Esme, the Village of Fowl Devotees - they all survive with no harm done, but when the Baudelaires find someone who shows them any kindness, such as Hal, Madame Lulu, Quigley (although he probably isn't a guardian), Bruce, Captain Widdershins, Dewey or Ishmael, there's some kind of horrible twist and they either betray the Baudelaires or meet some horrible fate due to Olaf.
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Post by Hermes on Mar 16, 2009 9:11:47 GMT -5
In the long term this may not have been beneficial to Ike, Josephine or the Baudelaires, but at least it gave the married pair a fairly content forty or so years together. This, by the way, makes theirs the most successful relationship in ASOUE, even if it ended in disaster. Bertrand and Beatrice managed fifteen years. Apart from that that, everything seems fairly tragic; Lemony and Beatrice, Olaf and Kit, Olaf and Esme, Esme and Jerome, Kit and Dewey, Captain and Mrs Widdershins, Mrs Widdershins and her first husband, Thursday and Miranda.... and of course Violet and Quigley and Klaus and Fiona. Sir and Charles' relationship seems fairly stable, but is very dysfunctional.
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