Sounds like every rich kid i've known
Clogs to clogs in three generations.
His ego plays a big role in this. His narcissistic worldview often puts him in a position where he makes plenty of demands despite having no power at all over the other party, it would be cute or funny if he was doing this as a joke, but he's 100% serious when he does it!
Chris is more solipsistic than narcissistic.
Chris doesn't see other people as people. His perspective is the only perspective. It simply doesn't occur to him that they might value something differently than he does. Thus when he demands $10k for a busted up hoopty of a Z3, and people point out to him that its blue book value isn't even a third of that, he believes they
know it's actually worth $10k (because that's what he wants for it) but are only offering a third of that
because they are being mean to him and kicking the autistic.
I think there's something to that.
Chris suffers from NESS (Not Enough Spankings Syndrome).
he was kinda doomed from the start.
No. He wasn't.
Chris is a self made (not exactly a) man (but no longer a child).
there's no version of Chris that didn't stumble through life doing badly.
Go watch Rollin & Trollin. Chris understands the sort of person he could / should be. Chris is just to lazy to be that version of Chris.
I thought the family is part of the reason why barb got raped
Barb (and her family) are part of the reason why I'm unsure it really was rape.
Chris is awful. Barb is also awful.
he one I feel the most for is Bob. He was a flawed man,
Bob made two mistakes. He knocked up Barb, and he didn't walk the fuck away.
If Chris were humbler, he would probably find himself a wallflower
That's one of the things about Chris' Love Quest that few people here understand. Barb would NEVER permit such competition.
Note that it was Bob, not Barb, who chaperoned the Emily date.
Weep for the child that was, not for the man that he became.
Laugh at both of them.
I could see a kid having an uncomfortable encounter with an adult and keeping it a secret
Not Chris. He couldn't even keep fucking his mother (committed entirely within the confines and privacy of his own home) a secret.
I mentioned this before, but it would have been a boon to Chris if Bob co-leased an apartment for him
It would have been a boon to Chris if Bob really had changed the locks.
Helping Chris doesn't help him.
Chris has never once had to suffer physically in life.
The streets will take care of that.
not because four were actually needed.
One was needed to hold him down, and three were needed to act as witnesses.
Public schools have learned the hard way to always cover their asses.