Through the choice of words, Rash presents Serena as the symbol of destructive anger resulting from pain, frustration, jealousy and obsession with dominance. some of these reasons are stated among Of Course You're Angry as “anger can take other forms: [d]pression, manipulation..can mask what’s really going on under the surface-festering rage” (Rosellini and Worden 30-31). Serena’s powerful character has a sick desire to manipulate the other which leads to a series of crimes as a means of gaining authority. When she has lost the child she carried from Pemberton after eight months of being pregnant and has known her inability to have another, she is frustrated but glad claiming “your [Pemberton’s] blood merged with mine” (210). It is not