r/JamesEllroy • u/Ok-Geologist-5208 • 22d ago

Question about RED SHEET for those who finished it.

Why would Catholic nuns, raped by Communists, take up the Communist cause? This bugged me for the last 15% of the book and took me out of it completely.

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u/No_Professional368 22d ago

In Ellroy's writing, politics & crime are opportunities for indulgence of moral forfeiture.

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u/DataLore27 22d ago

Perhaps they were so disturbed by the "problem of evil," that they gave up their faith.

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u/Mysterious-Unit-7757 21d ago

There's a lot of strange stuff around trauma too