#416 Marla- Jerome Charyn
Marla recently found out her sister, long since removed from
her life, was still alive. She had been sent away by her family because of some
disturbing tendencies and never spoke of her again. Now with her father dead,
she found Irene and has welcomed her back to her family’s 15-room apartment on
Central Park West.
As an attorney, Marla has gained a reputation as a viscous
opponent, and outside the courtroom, she and her two shadowy body men, she is
known as an old-school Bronx enforcer.
“Marla shouldn’t have been so cruel. She lived a monstrous
life, shielding murderers and swindlers, defying prosecutors and ripping out
the threads of their elaborate tales.”
Now with her sister in her life, and the law practice she
has always fought for, she is at the height of her power, but at what cost? She
defends the city’s worst criminals, and when one of them has eyes on her
sister, perhaps the chickens have come home to roost. It was her after all that
kept them out of jail.
“She was the criminal, not Marcellus Bloom. Marla had
created the monster, allowed him to flourish. He should have been locked away a
long time ago, with Marla in the next cell.”
She also, got her sister out of her institution living.
Irene also had criminal tendencies. It’s hard to see who to root for in some of
thee stories, and I’m not sure we’re supposed to feel good about any of them.
The Mother is shallow, and will think good of anyone as long as they give her
presents, Marla is a mob boss type amoral criminal attorney, Irene is a
psychopath. I don’t suppose there is any hope for the children if these are the
three role models.
What makes for a lousy family sometimes makes for a good
story at least.
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