Edward
finds himself in a magical land that at first seems ideal and perfect, but just
like in any fairy tale there is a danger to it. The people he so desperately
wants to fit in with are not as perfect and good as he thinks. We see their
twisted kind of morality when the family he is staying with tries to teach him
the right thing to do if he were to find unclaimed money, which is to turn it
into the police. But Edward and Kim agree that the nicer thing to do would be
to share it with loved ones.
The
ethics of the people in the neighborhood rely heavily in a set of rules, and
anyone who breaks those rules is seen as weird, crazy, or evil. Edward of
course is an outsider who learned a different set of rules. In the flashback of
Edward’s creator teaching him etiquette, he is learning the nice thing to do
rather than what his fake family says is “right”. One of the only other
characters besides Edward and Kim who is able to live beyond the boundaries of
these rules is the loony religious lady. The rest of the neighborhood women refuse
to interact with her because she is not like them, and she operates I an
entirely different code of ethics.
What
we see in this colorful fairy tale land is that just because everything may
look perfect on the outside, that doesn’t mean people can’t still be empty on
the inside. Edward travels there to find completeness, but these people are
equally as incomplete. None of the ladies who show him affection can offer him
love, and none of them receive it from their husbands who all leave for work at
the same time, dressed the same way, and who return in a single file line of
cars expecting a perfect home made meal when they get home.
When
Edward finds completeness, he finds it in Kim who is not a part of the club
either. The danger of Suburbia is that everyone who seeks completeness by being
accepted into it will become even emptier because they are surrounded by fake
love.
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