Suzanne wrote:
What I found to be most interesting in this chapter was how she let the boyfriend use the bath salts from her shrine of lifted goodies. Why would she so readily let him take those bath salts that belonged to her best friend? It does make sense that she may have gotten some type of thrill to see him handle it.

Hmmmm, I think I have to agree with Heledd here.....to me this was also a very sexual image (think threesome). I felt that letting one sexual partner use the bathtub (again, in this context a sexual image) AND letting him add the bathsalts from her friend was the connection. The 3 of them were combined in the "gush" of the tub. Or am I just perverted?
But I agree, Suzanne, that her souvenirs are very much like those of a serial killer and the favorite one being the scarf of a child disturbs me immensely.

Like a serial killer taking souveniers from her victim? I hadn't thought of that, but you are right! Now the thought is in my head, I too find the child's scarf disturbing. I also read 'water gushed from the faucet' as a sexual image. While, 'You like it hot? he asked. 'Or medium?' has obvious sexual connotations.

I didn't read sex into the plumber scene; more revulsion than anything sexual.

heledd wrote:Like a serial killer taking souveniers from her victim? I hadn't thought of that, but you are right! Now the thought is in my head, I too find the child's scarf disturbing.

The "victim" may not be a person however. Maybe her souveniers are moments in time for her, dead moments of time. She can remember the exact moment when she picked up that scarf, and that moment is now gone, dead. The child didn't mean anything to her. Maybe she just wanted a souvenier of that moment in time. We kill time every day right?

Good point, killing time! As we see in a later chapter about Sasha's childhood, though, not the child but the childhood is what matter to her, I think. But I find the scarf a very haunting image.