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I've posted about this before but the demonization of ambitious women through Violet in CATCF is so fucking evil, good feelings towards this movie dead, four injured

I'm also confused by the symbolism of her chewing gum. I would think that that habit would make more sense for a kid who's problem is that they're lazy, as in they just stand around chewing gum like they're a cow chewing cud, but no, her hamartia is the opposite of laziness. Does the gum chewing represent activity for its own sake rather than for the sake of achieving any particular goal? Restless activity that will never be finished because there is no real goal other than doing it perpetually, longer than anyone else can do it?

This reeks of the Burton movie so if it's not I'm so sorry but to answer for that one: they fumbled with how the previous iterations portrayed her.

Both the book and 1971 movie lay it on you that it's not just the gum chewing. Violet does multiple "unladylike" and gross things that show a lack of manners, such as chew with her mouth open or pick her nose. It was something unhygienic and a rude habit that she was later punished through because she didn't listen.

In Burton's movie, it's supposed to be the biggest representation of her pride. Violet's an overachiever who's worth revolves around what her mother says and while Burton goes far with his idea of those issues, he fails to actually use the gum as the vice it is. Her punishment in his movie doesn't make sense when you consider that it wasn't a choice she made on her own, as she was being encouraged by her mother throughout the scene. She shouldn't take the same level of blame the other kids do, because while the other three are actively going against the wishes of their parents, she's the only one who gets punished for listening.

Sure, she could take a blow to her ego because she's still cold and rude, but she at least presents herself in a proper manner in comparison to her previous counterparts, who were punished for their lack of manners instead of being punished for being over-obedient due to the way she was raised. The Burton movie is such bullshit when it comes to Violet it's not even funny