He's also got a bit of a date rapist thing going on, as evidenced in books like Dear Sister, where he tries to take advantage of a brain-damaged and drunk Elizabeth. In that book, we learn that Bruce keeps alcohol in his car for the sole purpose of making his dates more "accommodating" to his needs, and that he has very "strong hands from playing tennis" and can easily hold a girl down. Mmm don't you wish he was real, and not just a book rapist? So charming.
Oh, and let's not forget Playing With Fire. Bruce dates Jessica and treats her like a pile of garbage. She catches him cheating on her and dumps pizza and soda on him, and for about 2 seconds he learns a lesson ( later on in the series, he gets Jello thrown all over him. This guy has bad luck with junk food.).
Bruce changes for a little while after he meets the beautiful, deaf Regina Morrow and falls in love.. He waits for her faithfully while she's in Switzerland getting some kind of special treatment to restore her hearing, and they are together for around 20 books. But we can't have Bruce being a nice guy for too long, and he starts cheating on Regina with blonde Amy Sutton in On the Edge. This leads to Regina nursing her broken heart with the "wrong crowd", and trying cocaine. The coke triggers some kind of heart failure and Regina dies.
After her death Bruce and Amy are still dating, because neither of them seems to have any kind of heart (or guilt about being partly to blame for Regina's death). Occasionally Regina's death is used as an excuse for Bruce's bad behavior in the books after, and as far as I know, Bruce never gets truly serious with another girl in the SVH series again.
He also had his own family saga, Patman's of Sweet Valley, where we learn that his "old-money" family actually started out poor, with broke stable hand named Harry Patman.
Bruce and any aren't partly to blame for Regina dying. Coke was her choice alone and she even hesitated and did it anyhow. Itd only be their fault is they gave her the coke.
ReplyDeleteThey could have put anything in the cocaine. The whole town is a bit too close, I suspect Amy could probably have something to do with it. She is opportunistic to the point of being a pathological but literate pest, and because her mousey and understated elegance show that her character is not very confrontational. She doesn't communicate effectively and it would make sense if she was jealous of Jessica's popularity and beauty, had interests in Bruce or could sway people to believe that he influenced the series of events-and could use her place writing or editing the paper to show this. She snaps at Elizabeth and always seems to be thinking about the long term and manipulating people.
DeleteEven Lila Fowler was his playtoy. I wonder how submissive he made her. Don't forget in the end HE dumped Lila.
ReplyDeleteLila is not submissive, just because she is wealthy and loves purple.
DeleteJust because Lila is wealthy and an exclusive member of the unicorn club who is generous enough to loan her friends money for purple clothes at the mall, doesn't mean she's submissive.
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