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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 8, 2003 14:08:13 GMT -5
Any ideas on what Jerome went off and did after Esme left him? He kept the penthouse, I'd imagine, and it doesn't look like he ever had or needed a job, as he was the one who bought the penthouse in the first place, not Esme. Working on a new fanfiction, just wanted some thoughts on the matter. He didn't really seem to care that much that she left him.
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Post by Efogoto on Oct 9, 2003 1:14:02 GMT -5
Jerome would keep the penthouse because Jacques asked him to buy it, and Jacques isn't around now to tell Jerome that it's all right to sell it.
Without Esmé around, Jerome will be able to follow whatever pursuits he enjoys - which I can only recall as slidiing down the bannisters.
I can't help wondering if he went up Mount Fraught because he enjoyed it, or because he didn't want to argue about staying behind when somebody asked him to go.
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Post by Brian on Oct 19, 2003 16:27:24 GMT -5
you guys know that Jerome was a VFDer, right? He said in the EE that he hiked up Mt. Fraught with soon-to-be-Mrs. Baud and some "friends," no doubt other members. I don't really understand how that message from Jacques to Jerome in LSUA fits in, but there you have it.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 19, 2003 20:41:32 GMT -5
Well he's not very brave, so I don't imagine he enjoyed moutain climbing too much. And he's also not that good a listener, after Esme left he was prepared to sell the penthouse and take the children far far away, had they not refused to go with him. And I don't think he was a VFDer at all, but more of a hanger on friend of theirs.
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Post by Brian on Oct 21, 2003 16:00:25 GMT -5
I see your point, but he hiked up MOUNT FRAUGHT. As in, the peak right next to the VFD headquarters.
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Post by Bright HIM on Oct 23, 2003 14:39:05 GMT -5
OH, WOW! I forgot all about the headquarters! THANK YOU SO MUCH!  |
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Post by DetectiveDupin on Oct 23, 2003 15:59:33 GMT -5
you guys know that Jerome was a VFDer, right? He said in the EE that he hiked up Mt. Fraught with soon-to-be-Mrs. Baud and some "friends," no doubt other members. I don't really understand how that message from Jacques to Jerome in LSUA fits in, but there you have it. In Jaques letters to him, he adresses him as Jerome, not J. So Ha! |
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Post by LeeCurtis on Oct 27, 2003 7:44:17 GMT -5
Stayed in the pent house and never argued with anyone? I don't know.
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Post by BaudelaireQuagmire on Dec 2, 2003 7:56:48 GMT -5
He kept the enormous penthouse.Donated generously to charity.And had a nice,happy life.Doing whatever he wants to do.
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Post by red, black and white all over on Dec 16, 2003 22:34:41 GMT -5
Maybe he became depressed and never came out of his penthouse....  |
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Post by Tay Sachs on Dec 19, 2003 3:31:59 GMT -5
Good point.
That is what I can't figure out. Did he really love her at all?
He seemed to care for her a great deal, but when she left he seemed neither here nor there about the whole situation. Sort of a "I had a wife, now she's gone. shrug." kind of thing.
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Post by Efogoto on Dec 19, 2003 14:02:10 GMT -5
What could he do to keep her? Confront Cout Olaf? Or Esmé? Please. Jerome doesn't change the world, he adapts to the changed world.
Whether Jerome loved Esmé or not is difficult to determine and probably irrelevant. Esmé barged into his life, pushed him around while he was useful to her, then abandoned him when he was not. It seems to me that Jerome had little or nothing to do with controlling the course of events and is probably relieved that Esmé has departed, though he may have pangs that his marriage failed because "marriage is forever" in an ideal world.
What I don't get is, since Jerome has an enormous fortune (and he must to have been keeping Esmé in such style) why didn't Esmé and Olaf steal from Jerome? Heck, it wouldn't even be stealing had Esmé stayed with Jerome. Adulterous and wrong, sure, but Esmé is a villain and would hardly blink at that.
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Post by Efogoto on Dec 19, 2003 20:08:05 GMT -5
Or that he gets a charge out of duping people, impressing himself and his troupe with the complexity of his schemes, and intimidating those he views as helpless. In which case, actually getting the money isn't nearly as important as posturing and preening as much as possible.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Dec 19, 2003 22:58:52 GMT -5
Good point, there really wasn't much he could do except adapt to his new situation. He was the one keeping Esme in that manner, we know he had an enourmous fortune of his own because of his dining at the veritable french diner, where, as the menu says, if you have to ask you can't afford it.
And Esme probably did steal from him. But as Violet said "You're already unbelievably wealthy, why would you want to steal from us?" She and Olaf are both greedy. Besides, we know she doesn't care about the Baudelaire fortune so much as she does the sugar bowl, and getting back at Beatrice for whatever it is she did. She probably continued to write checks, use Jerome's credit cards and generally take whatever she wanted or needed from Jerome long after TEE. And he seems like the type to let her.
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Post by red, black and white all over on Dec 22, 2003 0:17:13 GMT -5
Yah I mean Jerome is kind of a pushover...
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