Was Roxy's behavior justified?
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Was Roxy's behavior justified?
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Another reason why I think Roxy's behavior was justified is that Steve was often forced to do things as a police officer that directly contradicted Roxy's moral principles. Steve would often be forced by his police department to arrest people for smoking marijuana—a practice Roxy would consider harmless or even beneficial to society (she smokes marijuana herself). In another instance, Steve is ordered to break up a protest that Roxy participated in. Steve, himself, did not morally support the police crackdown on the protest.
Steve also has to blamed for not making an effort to tell Roxy about all his experiences and for not making the effort to convince Roxy that he was doing the right thing and not wasting his time being a police officer. He always seemed unsure of his decision to be a police officer and he seemed to keep going more for the sake of not giving up than for the sake of doing the right thing, which, in my opinion, is not an honorable thing to do.
Roxy's unsupportive behavior is actually perfectly justified by the narrative's development.
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But Roxy and Steve were not married. They may have acted like a married couple, but they technically weren't married. I thought that Roxy's unsupportive behavior was justified because Steve would come home late at night drunk and interfere with her sleep, which could have had a negative impact on her studies and jeopardized her future career as a medical doctor.Timothee22 wrote: ↑12 Aug 2022, 00:05 You cannot support your spouse and bail on them when things turn sour. Her action shows how unsupportive she is. Steve should never forgive her.
I think the story was written in such a way that it failed to convince many readers that Roxy's unsupportive behavior toward Steve's decision to continue being a police officer was justified. I felt that the narrative would sometimes give flimsy or silly reasons for Roxy's negative and unsupportive attitude toward Steve's police work. For example, some of Steve's friends felt uncomfortable about the fact that he was a police officer, but the narrative establishes the fact that they have known Steve for years while he was at Brown University. Steve's friends should have realized from the fact that he never arrests them for marijuana possession that he is still largely the same person they have known for years and they should have been more supportive.
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I also don’t agree with the constant asking for space rather than just breaking up with Steve. It’s like she is leading him along, constantly giving Steve a glimmer of hope that there can still be something. He talks of marrying her, but she just isn’t that committed to the relationship and never says no.