Thoughts about Stanley

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John13

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Here is my theory. All the children suffer from various childhood traumas. But at some point they all seem to leave this trauma behind. Stanley is the only character that seems not to have any trauma but that is, i assume, because he does not admit it. And this means that while the other children purge their memories and can move on, Stanley is the only one who must live with these memories for 30 years. Whereas the other children contained their trauma, Stanley let it grow and in the end
he committed suicide
 
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Yes, to be able to hide the spoiler itself like can be done within the body of the thread instead of adding the word SPOILER to the title. There's no way that I can see including using the HTML coding to have that work in the title. The only way to currently get around that is to make the thread title less obvious.
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I dont think its a spoiler because it happens quite early. Still i think that whereas all other children managed to confront their childhood trauma, Stan was the only one who failed and he let it grow bigger till he committed suicide
 

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I dont think its a spoiler because it happens quite early. Still i think that whereas all other children managed to confront their childhood trauma, Stan was the only one who failed and he let it grow bigger till he committed suicide
...you may not, but the majority would disagree with you...and it's a very haunting portion of the novel.....
 

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he didn't really have his memories, he said as much to patty about knowing there was something wrong but not knowing what, but he may have recalled at least a little more than the others when the call triggered him. it's mentioned at least once that he was one of the few to to express doubts about It's death, and maybe he even recognized it was pregnant. they also talked a lot about how the supernatural offended his sense of order. he was the closest to coming unhinged at any given point, because he had a stricter belief in natural order and having things be explainable. it's possible that he didn't even have time to remember very much before his mind said screw this and he did what he did. he would have just had to remember the horror and the unnaturalness of it all. his mind struggled to live in a world where something like It existed and to reconcile his understanding of the world after witnessing It's powers

they even mention at one point how an adult seeing what they did would have ended up straight in the nut house, but as kids, they absorbed it into their world view and moved on. stanley was already practically a mini adult the first time around, and his mind would have only wound tighter with age
 

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he didn't really have his memories, he said as much to patty about knowing there was something wrong but not knowing what, but he may have recalled at least a little more than the others when the call triggered him. it's mentioned at least once that he was one of the few to to express doubts about It's death, and maybe he even recognized it was pregnant. they also talked a lot about how the supernatural offended his sense of order. he was the closest to coming unhinged at any given point, because he had a stricter belief in natural order and having things be explainable. it's possible that he didn't even have time to remember very much before his mind said screw this and he did what he did. he would have just had to remember the horror and the unnaturalness of it all. his mind struggled to live in a world where something like It existed and to reconcile his understanding of the world after witnessing It's powers

they even mention at one point how an adult seeing what they did would have ended up straight in the nut house, but as kids, they absorbed it into their world view and moved on. stanley was already practically a mini adult the first time around, and his mind would have only wound tighter with age

The other kids confronted IT(their childhood trauma)and managed to move on with their lives. Stanley is the only child that he failed to confront IT and it grew up inside him ultimately resulting to taking his own life
 

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The other kids confronted IT(their childhood trauma)and managed to move on with their lives. Stanley is the only child that he failed to confront IT and it grew up inside him ultimately resulting to taking his own life

right . . . i addressed many discussed reasons behind this in my post. it wasn't quite as simple as not confronting it. it was being incapable of confronting it, based on deep seated aspects of his personality