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** WordOfGod is that Marion was planning to drive back home in the morning, hand the money back and presumably do her best to make amends (she'd still have to replace the $700 she spent on the car). She never gets her chance at redemption, and is killed with everyone believing she's a thief. No one will ever know that she was planning to return the money either.

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** WordOfGod is that Marion was planning to drive back home in the morning, hand the money back back, and presumably do her best to make amends (she'd still have to replace the $700 she spent on the car). She never gets her chance at redemption, redemption and is killed with everyone believing she's a thief. No one will ever know that she was planning to return the money either.



** His speech to Marion about how his mother treats him underlines just how Norma's abuse affected him. He wants to sometimes "curse her and leave her forever", but stays by because she's an ill old woman who can't take care of herself. While his response to Marion suggesting he put her "some place" veers closer to NightmareFuel, his mother has him so controlled that giving her into the care of those who could handle her and treat her (thus ridding him of the responsibility) seems like AFateWorseThanDeath. Obviously TheReveal shows that this is not the true situation, but it's possible that's how he felt before her death.

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** His speech to Marion about how his mother treats him underlines just how Norma's abuse affected him. He wants to sometimes "curse her and leave her forever", but stays by because she's an ill old woman who can't take care of herself. While his response to Marion suggesting he put her "some place" veers closer to NightmareFuel, his mother has him so controlled that giving her into the care of those who could handle her and treat her (thus ridding him of the responsibility) seems like AFateWorseThanDeath. Obviously Obviously, TheReveal shows that this is not the true situation, but it's possible that's how he felt before her death.



* Maureen's death in ''Psycho III''. After realizing her feelings for Norman, she returns to him in order to save his soul and start a normal life with him. Only for her to accidentally fall down the stairs and impale her head on a [[DeathByIrony statue of Cupid's arrow]]. She was the first woman to make a break through with Norman and she sadly dies completely by accident. Norman's cries only make it all the more harsher as he yells for his girlfriend to be okay.

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* Maureen's death in ''Psycho III''. After realizing her feelings for Norman, she returns to him in order to save his soul and start a normal life with him. Only him, only for her to accidentally fall down the stairs and impale her head on a [[DeathByIrony statue of Cupid's arrow]]. She was the first woman to make a break through breakthrough with Norman and she sadly dies completely by accident. Norman's cries only make it all the more harsher as he yells for his girlfriend to be okay.



* The scenes after the final confrontation in Psycho II; Norman doesn't utter a single word as he sits in the police station and then later returns home alone having lost both Dr. Raymond and Mary]]. He looks so lost and alone when he steps through his front door and into that big empty house. It doesn't help that Tony Perkins' facial expressions really sell just what he's been through.

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* The scenes after the final confrontation in Psycho II; Norman doesn't utter a single word as he sits in the police station and then later returns home alone alone, having lost both Dr. Raymond and Mary]]. He looks so lost and alone when he steps through his front door and into that big empty house. It doesn't help that Tony Perkins' Perkins's facial expressions really sell just what he's been through.
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* The whole existence of the mother persona is one when you think about it. Norman grew up being abused and mistreated by his mother, with no friends or other companions he could confide in. Even if you ignore the sequels, he clearly grew up very lonely and unloved. So his murder was very much killing an AssholeVictim who tormented him so much - but he was so consumed by guilt at killing someone who richly deserved it that he let her take over his mind anyway.

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* The whole existence of the mother persona is one when you think about it. Norman grew up being abused and mistreated by his mother, with no friends or other companions he could confide in. Even if you ignore the sequels, he clearly grew up very lonely and unloved. So his murder was very much killing an AssholeVictim who tormented him so much - but he was so consumed by guilt at killing someone who richly deserved it that he let her take over his mind anyway. "Maybe she deliberately prevented him from growing up," says Sam to Lila in the novel.

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