Even after she drugs and undresses him, he's still coherent enough to fight her off. Although clearly tempted, with the exception of one kiss that he immediately regrets, ultimately resists Vera's attempts at seducing him rather than succumbing immediately.Doesn't force himself on Audrina on their wedding night and patiently endures their Sexless Marriage until she's ready to have sex.It's shown that he actually tried to stop Audrina's rape, rather than running like a coward, before being overpowered by her assailants.While he participates in the ruse along with everyone else: Adaptational Heroism: Arden's a much better person in the movie.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Audrina, who is repeatedly described as blonde in the book, is a brunette in the Lifetime movie.A brief scene explains that Sylvia was stillborn, but Billie is never mentioned at all. Adapted Out: Billie and Sylvia in the movie adaptation.Regarding Vera, he and Ellsbeth averts this trope more or less due to Vera being an Enfant Terrible.She also seems to see Audrina as defiled and impure from then on. After the rape, Lucky scrubs Audrina's skin so hard during a scalding hot bath that she bleeds and was the more hysterical parent. Even before Audrina was raped, Damian was a father who was satisfied only with being treated with unquestioned obedience and worship. A ghostwritten sequel, Whitefern, which continued the story of Audrina as an adult, was published in 2016. My Sweet Audrina was adapted as a Made-for-TV Movie for the Lifetime Network in 2016. If she's ever going to live a normal life, she must finally learn the terrifying secret that everyone else already knows. Trapped in the walls of Whitefern, helpless in the hands of her family, and oh so young and trusting, Audrina is forced to sit in the First and Best Audrina's rocking chair until she absorbs her dead sister's special gifts so that Papa will love her as much as he loved the First Audrina.Īs Audrina grows up, she begins to break away from her papa and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Her papa forbids her to go to school, make friends, or visit the woods behind their house where, on a rainy day nine years before Audrina's birth, her adored elder sister ( also named Audrina) was raped and murdered.

Audrina suffers from a sporadic memory and a strange inability to sense time passing, leaving her confused and vulnerable. Seven-year-old Audrina Adele Adare lives in isolation in a Old, Dark House called Whitefern, along with her Overprotective Dad Damian, beautiful but self-absorbed mother Lucky, her bitter spinster aunt Ellsbeth, and Ellsbeth's jealous, spiteful daughter Vera. Andrews, the only standalone novel written in her lifetime. My Sweet Audrina is a 1982 novel written by V.

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