The Dear Hunter would not have killed her in my opinion. He's too much of a romantic as we learn later in Act II. As a hopeless romantic myself, I feel that family obligatory love is just as binding, in merely a different way from falling in love. I like the idea of the pimp and the priest terminating her, and I have this funny feeling that we'll find out in later acts that he was intercepting Ms. Leading's letters and the Dear Hunter will confront him (in possibly a violent matter).
I think the one life for another does represent the Dear Hunter being able to find his own life now that his obligatory "matriarchal bonds" are cut.
The Dear Hunter would not have killed her in my opinion. He's too much of a romantic as we learn later in Act II. As a hopeless romantic myself, I feel that family obligatory love is just as binding, in merely a different way from falling in love. I like the idea of the pimp and the priest terminating her, and I have this funny feeling that we'll find out in later acts that he was intercepting Ms. Leading's letters and the Dear Hunter will confront him (in possibly a violent matter).
I think the one life for another does represent the Dear Hunter being able to find his own life now that his obligatory "matriarchal bonds" are cut.