Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20130126214343/@comment-4975807-20130218055528

Jacobier wrote: I think Milah is more about her image, she doesn't seem to care what happens to Rumple, its all about the way she appears in the public's eye:

Rumple's dead = She's a widow and has a son

Rumple's a cowrd = She's a laughing stalk for being married to him, the son is raised with that (what happened)

She would prefer for him to be dead rather then her be a laughing stalk of the whole town... she isn't likable or sympathetic, really she is a women who could have just accepted her husband for the way he is but choose to give into what people thought about her. I got the impression that it isn't that she doesn't care about Rumple--it's that she cares greatly about her husband's reputation, and how she perceives him being branded a coward has left a mark on not only herself, but their infant son as well. The shame of having the neighbors gossip about her (which they most likely did) and jeer at her for having a coward of a man must've worked both ways. If she didn't feel shame at first for Rumple's actions, it's possible she grew to resent him during the time he purposely broke his leg to the moment he finally got home because shame is a powerful thing. The village could've begun shunning her for her husband's cowardice, and they'd be forcing her to feel shame b/c of it. Then again, the resentment she has towards Rumple could be because of the burden she has to bear for his actions.