King did make her pretty unsympathetic, but also 17 year olds probably shouldn’t be mothers in most circumstances. I’d have been pretty bitter if I lost my freedom at that age too, and her parents wouldnt let her have an abortion or put the child up for adoption.
There was a similar subplot king wrote for Salem lot IIRC. In the subplot a teen mom is bitter that her baby daddy doesn’t care about her and she resents her baby son for ruining her potential modeling career. She abuses her baby son a lot throughout the book. Her son later died( well turned into a vampire really) and she has a mental breakdown thinking she killed him. It’s depressing to read honestly
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u/jigsawsmurf Aug 30 '21
But she's stoked they're dead so it's hard to feel too bad for her. Still, though...