Was Larry's accident a "lie"?

[Anna Maria 86]

Maybe he didn't plan it, and certainly not to go the awful way he did (maybe he hoped for a quick death), but it's possible that he knew about the insurance and simply used the situation to his advantage. He saw that the conditions were awful, and that it might redirect people from any suspicions, so he just put himself out there. If it is true, it was the biggest sacrifice one can make for the people he loves.

[Poppy Drear]

I don't think Larry planned it, at the very least. The timing does seem suspicious, though... It almost makes me think that another character had a hand in it somehow, despite all the coincidental timing.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

Maybe he didn't plan it, and certainly not to go the awful way he did (maybe he hoped for a quick death), but it's possible that he knew about the insurance and simply used the situation to his advantage. He saw that the conditions were awful, and that it might redirect people from any suspicions, so he just put himself out there. If it is true, it was the biggest sacrifice one can make for the people he loves.

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[Ferdinand_Otieno]

I don't think Larry planned it, at the very least. The timing does seem suspicious, though... It almost makes me think that another character had a hand in it somehow, despite all the coincidental timing.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

I don't think Larry planned it, at the very least. The timing does seem suspicious, though... It almost makes me think that another character had a hand in it somehow, despite all the coincidental timing.

Interesting.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

If you go back and reread location 3782, you will see that it was actually Suzette that discovered the insurance policy - after Larry and Louise were out to sea. Later, Louise confirms that neither of them knew about the policy her father had put in place (loc. 4296). Louise was just jealous of Suzette. She laments (lpc. 3790), "she'd been so wrong about Larry." It was an accident!

questionable.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

Maybe he didn't plan it, and certainly not to go the awful way he did (maybe he hoped for a quick death), but it's possible that he knew about the insurance and simply used the situation to his advantage. He saw that the conditions were awful, and that it might redirect people from any suspicions, so he just put himself out there. If it is true, it was the biggest sacrifice one can make for the people he loves.

Yes it was, and he did it for a woman who at the time thought him of infidelity.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

I argue that he could have attempted to dive out the way, but just stood there. With all his experience diving to safety is second instict, that he didn't is telling. And why would he do this if he did not somehow know about the insurance policy and realize his death would be a better life for Louise? I say, he found the policy, realized its value and returned it into the rest of the documents. He had to die while tugging and it had to seem convincing. He could not predict the accident on the Express, the bad weather while tugging or that the cable might snap, but that last one- a cable snapping during tur ulent weather, he definitely could have forseen that. Standing still and expecting an instant death was his idea, but fate intervened to give him a relatively slow one through amputation.

[Ferdinand_Otieno]

Knowing that there was a life insurance policy on the leader of the Warhorse at the end of the book, do you think Larry had an accident or did he plan it?

This was a great discussion. Thank you to all who participated.

[T_stone]

It indeed was an accident. A very horrible way to die. Although it seems like a possibility because of the insurance policy. I think it's an accident.

[Niski]

I definitely don't think it was planned. Having read further into the book, you can see what kind of guy Larry is and I don't think he was capable of something like that.

[Azrevread]

Larry's tragedy was certainly a shocking accident. He and his crew were in an extreme situation of facing hazardous
weather conditions on a derelict freighter.

[KDJ]

I thought that for a second, but I don't think Larry knew about the insurance policy either. It was in Louise father's will (I think). I think it was an unfortunate accident and not a planned act. Also, I think that since he was sure they were going to get the payout for the salvage, I don't think he or Louise needed it at that point. If they didn't recover the Seattle Express, then maybe it would have made more sense to be a planned suicide. Besides he was still strong and able to find work or maybe even change careers, I don't think he was at a point where suicide for insurance was the only plausible option, even with being mortgaged and indebted. That's what I think.

[Maeve Mor]

Unfortunate as it may seem, Larry's accident is definitely unplanned though the subject of life insurance really seemed to be very suspicious.

[Azrevread]

Larry's tragedy was certainly a shocking accident. He and his crew were in an extreme situation of facing hazardous
weather conditions on a derelict freighter.

Larry's accident was certainly a tense moment in the novel, there were several ways that a reader would be concerned
that an injury could go from bad to worse so quickly.