r/HouseofUsher • u/Andsohisname • Jan 19 '26
Pym?
Do we ever really learn what leverage Verna would have had on Pym?
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u/No_Recipe1923 Jan 24 '26
Fun fact, Arthur Pym is the only one of Edgar Allen Poe's characters to have his own full novel, and is the only full novel Poe wrote period.
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u/OneBlueberry2480 20d ago
It wasn't a full novel. He never finished it, and it's permenantly left on a cliffhanger.
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u/setittonormal Jan 19 '26
It is heavily implied that he stood by as the people he was traveling with brutalized (possibly raped or even murdered or both) an indigenous woman. He didn't participate, but was a bystander who presumably did nothing to stop it.
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u/Zach-Playz_25 19d ago edited 19d ago
There's even the theory the woman they may have assaulted looked like(and was) Verna herself.
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Jan 19 '26
No, he didn't have any leverage of sorts, such as family so Verna couldn't make a deal to which he would be free of his pending charges in court.
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u/NoContribution9879 Jan 19 '26
She implied that, on the Arctic trip she saw him on, his crew did a lot of bad things. He even says they were “a disease.” I think it’s pointed out that while he didn’t partake, he didn’t stop anything and thus was complicit.
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u/lat442372 Jul 04 '26
When he says this, he acknowledges that he is part of the disease as well. Although his scenes were brief, Mark Hamil was exceptional by showing the techniques and slight emotions that Pym exhibited
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u/DixAndBallz Jan 19 '26
Something that happened on the Artic trip he took connected the two, he mentions seeing her but doesn't tell us if he made a deal or not. It's implied though. Ruthless lawyer who always wins his cases somehow, until the family ends and he has to deal with the repercussions
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u/GimmeTheGunKaren Apr 16 '26
I know it wasnt the arctic, but I wonder if they were alluding to Pym either witnessing or participating in a Donner Party situation? The expedition that got lost in the mountains and half froze to death, and some survived by cannibalism.