8217;t a fatherly-daughterly sort of kiss, not at all. It was a kiss with some meaning behind it, and I didn’t like it” (Meyer 249).Here it is safe to conclude that Alena cares for Rolfe rather than for Jim. It is even surprising that Alena has it in her to be so loving because to Jim, she never showed this kind of love, even though they were lovers. Each time she had intercourse with him the night before, she asks him another favor the next morning. The first time, she asks for his helping hand in “marching up and down the sidewalk in front of a fur emporium in Beverly Hills” (Meyer 246). Next, she asks him a big favor to drive her and Rolfe to free the turkeys. She treats Jim like a piece of meat, allowing him to suffer through the protest and even asking him to risk the possibility of jail time by aiding her and her love interest to save the turkeys. Nothing in her feels shame or guilt by using Jim. Her last words to him were, “We’re the plague on this planet, don’t you know that” (Meyer 254)? This whole time Jim has been suffering to do everything to make her happy, she has only seen him as a “plague on the planet.” Although she has asked a lot from Him and even agreed to pursue a physical relationship, she cares nothing about Him as a person, but only sees him as a tool. “The hollowness opened up, cored me out till I felt as if I’d been plucked and gutted and served up on a platter myself” (Meyer 254). It is humorous to see how Him is so surprised that she has dropped him so quickly after all they have been through. To the reader, it is obvious that Alena has no care for mankind. “She described how she’s spiked trees, an act that everyone knows can kill lumber jacks sawing down that tree. Alena hates human beings so much that she is willing to be responsible for their death, just for the sake of nature. Because of her callused ...
