Angel has inspired three previous articles. I
have described her imagination, her life and personality and her resemblance to
various witches. So what more can there be to say about this strange and
impossible woman?
There are some more familiar features and
scenarios in her story to be described, and more details to come about the way
she wants and gets things.
Wants and obsessions
Angel is an all-or-nothing person; she wants
what she wants, how and when she wants it, on her own terms.
People like Angel are so single-minded in the
pursuit of what they want that they may behave like addicts desperate for their
next fix. They want nothing and no one except whatever they are currently
obsessed with; if they are offered anything else they behave as if they have
been given a stone when they wanted bread.
I have already mentioned Angel’s visit to her
publisher in which she ignores his wife. Angel mostly ignores her aunt, except
when she hears her say something interesting about life in the big house,
something that she can use in her fantasies.
As a schoolgirl, Angel spends as much time as
possible in her imagination, dreaming about living a life of luxury as a member
of the family that owns the local big house. She surprises her aunt by actually
asking her some questions after hearing her say something that catches her interest
and provides food for her imagination. I have seen this behaviour in real life;
it is not a good sign. The perpetrator blocks someone completely, then suddenly
pounces on them if there is a chance of getting something they want from them.
