Wanted to add, like any truely reat story alternative takeaways are not just possible but probable. Like the real family curse is only one per generation can live to adulthood. Or Edie is a serial killer (that one's funny). After the second playthrough taking 2 pages of notes my girlfriend says I'm over thinking it and I believe she's right. There were errors in the story dev's should have caught if they put as much thought in as I believed they did. Like now many years Walter spent in bunker (37 per calendar during his scenes). Also means he spent 13 years after Barbara's death above ground though I've accepted Edie is a compulsive lier.
So an alternate take is the Finches have an actual curse that was likely broken by Dawn whereby when a Finch has a strong desire/wish it is fulfilled.
So hungry wish I could eat everything, done.
Wish to be loved to death by fans, done.
Wish to truely fly away, done.
Wish playtime would not end, done.
Wish daughter can be taught to survive when I'm not around, done.
(I didnt play the unfinished swan) little is shared about Milton however "it all changed when edie gave Milton a castle" according to Edith so my guess is he wished to run away and be king of a castle. Done
And wish to leave the boring physical world and stay full time in the imagination world... done.
Edies wish was to pass down just one story that encompassed "the history of the Finches" Dawn spent her whole life blocking her wish. A lightning bolt should have struck the house the moment the book was torn in half.
Dawn's wish was Edith never learned any of Edies stories.
Two Finches with opposite wishes may have broken the family curse.
After that night a Finch died of simple old age. A Finch died of cancer. A Finch died during childbirth complications.
The desire/wish granting deaths of the old Finch curse ended with the duo of Edie and Dawn's opposing desires.
Wanted to throw the idea out there. I love your take and write up article better than my takeaway. Far more insightful and elegant.
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