Bank Question
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beckeis — 16 years ago(July 06, 2009 03:53 PM)
Yeah, that's the impression I got. She got enough information from the bank manager to make her husband think she took the money out of his account but she was not able to really get into it until he died.
I liked the three dimensional way they played the bank manager. He could have just had her removed but he did feel guilty and helped Delores in the only way he could. -
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saybow69 — 16 years ago(July 18, 2009 11:50 AM)
dont think so? if she made up? how would she know it was all there except $500 that she said he blew? she would have no idea how much was gone? if it was lie he would have probly just have taken all that money out and put money in pocket, not a new account? but either way she knew exactly what he spent? so that shows banker gave her info and considering it was her account! not his! that he took money out of? that money would have legaly been hers, he was the liar, either way? whether banker let her take money out (read book and made it sound like she did) her name would be on that new account at least! so ya it could have still been in bank? but she at least now had access to it again and pretty sure she cleared up not too let him do the lost bank book theory again? but he happend to have an accident before he got a chance too? it was an accident! haa
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maky_mouse — 16 years ago(September 19, 2009 02:31 PM)
Exactly. People seem to be missing this. If she had gotten the money back from the back, then she wouldn't have been crying at Vera's house, even if Joe blew $500. She would still have used the remaining $2,500 to get "as far as she could". She was crying, hence, obviously the bank did not, I repeat, did not give her the money back. She only lied to get Joe to follow her where the money was allegedly buried, and in the end it also got him furious enough to chase her without minding his step.
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jackboot — 16 years ago(July 20, 2009 04:59 PM)
People seem almost evenly split as to whether the bank manager gave her back the money or that she merely stated falsely to Joe that she'd gotten the money back from the bank to anger Joe and bait him into falling into the trap in order that she might get the money after he dies.
I tend to think that she gets the money from the bank manager, but we'll never really know either way. I like to think that she convinces him to give it back to her as the bank manager should not have let Joe withdraw the money and redeposit it in a new account in the first place. And Delores was convincing as she implored the bank manager, you must agree. Whether or not it was all strictly by the book, I would like to think that the bank manager in that small town realized that Joe was a drunken beep and a loser and that Delores was sincere in her entreaty such that he would take matters into his own hands and step over the line to make things right.
I like to think that she was able to get it back from the bank manager, and in so doing, that it would show her better side rather than some sort of cold and calculating plan to set Joe up for an accidental death so that she could get it back after he was dead. I think that the overarching thread of this story is that Delores was always trying to do more or less the right thing and that she was not a bad person. Her greatest motivation was to see that her daughter grows up to be the best woman she can be. She was not a killer seeking Joe's assets. Joe didn't have any assets. It appears that he pissed away all the family money on booze.
With her back against the wall, knowing that Joe had been sexually abusing their daughter, Selena, and finding out that he had pulled a fast one and taken away the money Delores had been saving for Selena, she had to do something drastic. Vera provided the necessary extra push to motivate her to confront Joe and set him up, by exploiting Joe's own faults (ie, drunkeness, violent behavior toward Delores) to play him like a patsy and get him to fall into a trap by his own failings.
For those who find that a rather gruesome thought, I'd ask, what else could she have done? She did take a tremendous risk and a great gamble confronting Joe. You can bet that Joe, as drunk and angered as he was, could easily have beaten her to death had he caught her. The times and the rather backwards ways of the town, as exemplified by the bank manager in his helping Joe to pull a fast one with the money makes me think that Delores would find no help or sympathy from law enforcement for Joe's violence toward Delores or his sexual abuse of Selena. Her back really was against the wall. -
merrilyac — 16 years ago(July 23, 2009 11:32 AM)
Jackboot, I agree about her HAVING to get rid of Joe. It was because of what he was doing to Selena and not for the money. She was upset about the money because she wanted to leave with Selena to save her from him going any further with her. But she killed him FOR Selena. That might have also preyed on Selena's mind that her mother did it FOR HER. It would be nice if the banker gave her the money back but since she went to work that day instead of leaving it proved she did not get her money.
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fiatlux-1 — 14 years ago(August 04, 2011 10:26 PM)
I wondered whether she got the money back from the bank, but I doubt very much that she did. They couldn't give it to her, as it was gone.
But what I NEVER understood waswhy the hell did Dolores open a custodial account?!! Why didn't she just open a bank account in her name alone, or in Selena's name alone? Joe couldn't have touched it then!
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lunchtime916 — 14 years ago(August 12, 2011 08:47 PM)
I think it's quite obvious that she didn't get the money back from the bank. The next scene shows her speaking with Vera and breaking down crying saying that she was going to leave with that money but he stole it. If she got the money back she would have gone through with her plan on leaving. Instead she felt backed into a corner because she couldn't leave and she just broke down.