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Summary: But why is it called Desert Heart?
Chapter 2
Desert Heart, starring Rita Farr
January 14, 2001 / 7:34 PM
Rita huffs. "You are looking too much into this. Audrey is simply a troubled, multifaceted girl full of contradictions. She does not have a split personality."
Larry isn't backing down. "But look. She had a mental breakdown, left her boyfriend, quit her job, cut off her hair, moved to Canada, and lived in the woods as a hermit. Then she changes and suddenly she wants to go back to the city and rebuild her old life and halfway there she has another breakdown and moves back to the woods and it repeats. The two personalities are obviously fighting control for the body."
"Just because people have different ways of coping with the stresses of urban life, doesn't mean they have a split personality, Larry."
"I gotta go with Larry on this, and I say this as someone who shares her body with sixty-four personalities," Jane drawls from her corner of the couch. She turns up the volume to drown out Rita and Larry's argument. On the TV, Audrey is passionately monologuing about the merits of city life and how much she regrets becoming a hermit.
Cliff, sitting on the special steel-framed armchair Chief had bought for him, tries to daydream about literally anything else but the movie. This is the forty-seventh time he's watched Desert Heart, and god knows how many times Rita made Larry and Jane watch this movie, yet somehow they find something in the movie to argue about every single time. Personally, he agrees with Larry and Jane—Rita's character definitely has a split personality—but in his opinion, there are much more pressing questions that they should be discussing. Like, why is it called Desert Heart when it takes place in the fucking tundra half the time?
"Oh yeah? Then why is it called Desert Heart when it takes place in the Canadian tundra half the time?" Larry fires at Rita.
"The title refers to Audrey's passionate search for meaning!"
Cliff has to roll his eyes. "The fuck does that mean?"
Rita sighs dramatically. "Oh, Lord save me from these philistines..."