So how did I get my student loans? Entire countries exist where you don’t need a job or property to get student loans. In fact I got a bigger loan for being poorer because it wasn’t dished out based on my capacity to pay it back it was paid out on my needs.
Again. This plot line is shit but it isn’t beyond the realms of possibility she got a loan. Google churches giving out loans. They’ll give them out in the USA for people studying certain religious subjects. Not all loans are to make profit. Some are to push a different agenda. Like socialism… hence left leaning places either making school free or giving incredibly generous loans to anyone who wants them.
Look, my issue with people ragging on the loan thing isn’t me defending it. It’s a nonsense plot element that was poorly thought out. My issue is people basing their “analysis” of it on literally 2-3 lines from the story and then filling in all the gaps with assumptions, generalisations, guesswork and I think someone had a Ouija board at some point. There’s not enough to go on so I have to lean into the ambiguity. We’ve had like 3 days and godknows how many posts debating an imaginary countries finance laws.
I didn't mention the student loan because that is even more unlikely to end up in the hands of an adult and not in the college...
in general you may well be right, in fact I was saying before that if it were to be confirmed in the story that it is possible it would still suit me better than the opposite scenario, despite the nosense.
I disagree with the argument that it's a thought extrapolated from 2-3 lines though. DPC wanted to tell us about it, actually in the scene at the beginning of chapter 7 there was no narrative need to explain it again, complicating it even more. and in the same dialogue Maya admits that she should have talked about it with someone but she didn't because she was afraid it would cost too much. and later we know that Maya will talk about it with Burke and maybe Jade. i don't think it's a coincidence
It is possible he just doesn’t give a shit about her. She says how she had to take the bus back and forth to get all her stuff to school. She gets upset at Josy’s (I wanna say step) father dropping her a stuff off because she doesn’t have that with her father. Patrick’s “control” could be superficial. He doesn’t so much want to control her he just doesn’t want her embarrassing him which she still (rightly) takes as control.
This is just another take on this, he’s ashamed of her. He’s religious. He resents her sexuality and what he cares about is her specifically not being publicly gay.
If all this control is just keeping up appearances his inconsistency becomes him just doing the bare minimum to enforce what he actually gives a shit about. He doesn’t care where she lives as long as it isn’t with Josy. He doesn’t care about her education as long as she isn’t publicly being gay. He uses the loan as a big stick to enforce his will when he needs to but otherwise he doesn’t give a shit.
That’s just a take on what little we know about him and his motivations. Explains his inconsistencies. He doesn’t wanna control her on every level (and Maya’s oblique claims he does can easily be chalked up to hyperbole) he just needs enough influence to keep her in line but otherwise he doesn’t give a shit.
The only thing they tell us about him is that he checks up on Maya all the time, with Derek and directly. Both Maya and Josy tell us this.
He's not that bothered by Maya sharing a room with a guy, but he threatens to ruin his daughter's life if she hangs out with Josy. I'd say he's very interested in Maya's life on that at least.
to me that scene seems simply not successful, it served to change the cards at stake and it was structured in a quite superficial way
