Psychic

At first, I thought Allison, the psychic, was a trustworthy person. I found it scary how she had a sign of what was happening to Jason. When Allison knew about Heather and Jason’s character Froggles, (Coupland 174) it made Heather cry. Although I had disbelief in other psychics, I thought that Allison was truly trying to help Heather. Instead, Allison was completely manipulating and abusing Heather’s emotions. She made Heather pay ridiculous amounts of money for services which turned out to be fake because Jason was the one who left the note for Allison to tell Heather should he ever disappear. The fact that Allison doesn’t answer her phone and no one knows of her made it seem like she didn’t actually exist at first. On page 194, Heather is being completely oblivious, stupid and crazy. The psychic told Heather she wasn’t a real psychic, yet Heather offers to pay for her car troubles and fee of $5000 (Coupland 194) because she is just so absolutely desperate for communication with Jason. On one hand, Heather deserved to be tricked because she was being so naive and gullible, but on the other hand, I think the author Douglas Coupland could have added some punishment for Allison being so sly and manipulative. It’s one thing to mess with one’s property and take Heather’s money, but Allison took it too far by playing around with her emotions when Heather had already gone through enough pain.

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