{"id":6916,"date":"2013-12-29T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:25:29","slug":"50-shades-freed-recap-chapter-25-my-race-is-almost-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=6916","title":{"rendered":"50 Shades Freed recap Chapter 25: “My race is almost run.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is it. The last chapter of the entire\u00a050 Shades of Grey<\/em>\u00a0series. I mean, there’s an epilogue, and a vignette, and the first part of the first book rewritten from Christian’s POV– OMG YOU GUISE THIS IS TOTALLY NOT LIKE TWILIGHT LIKE AT ALL–, but the chapters, the main part of the story, the horrible, crushing legacy of “love him ’til he’s well” is over. It’s… it’s over.<\/p>\n

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If you remember what happened in our last chapter, then good for you! Because it’s been a fuck of a long time since I’ve done a recap. Anyway, Christian was about to tell Ana literally everything she has been longing to know ever since she met him. He’s going to tell her all about Mrs. Robinson, and how he got into kinky fuckery. The entire plot of the series is about to be wrapped up in a single conversation. So, how does Ana react?<\/p>\n

Do I want to hear this?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!<\/p>\n

OF COURSE YOU WANT TO HEAR THIS!<\/p>\n

HOW DARE YOU, HOW VERY, VERY DAAAAAAAAARE YOU, MAKE ME READ THREE WAY TOO LONG NOVELS OF CONSTANT WHINGING THAT CHEDWARD WON’T TELL YOU ANYTHING, ONLY TO DOUBT THAT YOU WANT HIM TO TELL YOU IN THE VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE VERY LAST CHAPTER OF THE VERY LAST BOOK! HOW DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE YOU!<\/p>\n

Christian tells Ana that he was doing yard work for Mrs. Robinson when she brought him lemonade, then slapped him, kissed him, and slapped him again. Because she went to the Daytime Soaps School of Nonsensical Seduction.<\/p>\n

“Do you want to hear this?” Christian asks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes… No…<\/p>\n

“Only if you want to tell me.” My voice is small as I lie facing him, my mind reeling.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“She didn’t touch me when she kissed me,” he murmurs and turns his head to gaze at me. “You have to understand… my life was hell on earth. I was a walking hard-on, fifteen years old, tall for my age, hormones raging. The girls at school–” He stops, but I’ve got the picture; a scared, lonely, but attractive adolescent. My heart twists.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was angry, so fucking angry at everyone, at myself, my folks. I had no friends. My therapist at the time was a total asshole. My folks, they kept me on a tight leash; they didn’t understand.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically he was a very normal, typical American teenager? Except for the part where he keeps saying, “my folks.” I’ve never met anyone born after 1970 who says, “My folks” this often.<\/p>\n

Christian began a sexual relationship as a sub to Mrs. Robinson:<\/p>\n

“And you know something, Ana? My world came into focus. Sharp and clear. Everything. It was exactly what I needed. She was a breath of fresh air. Making the decisions, taking all that shit away from me, letting me breathe.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, remember everybody, BDSM is the cure-all. But also, the problem. I guess. Somehow.<\/p>\n

This is what I don’t understand, and maybe you guys can help me out in the comments: if Chedward was miraculously healed by being a submissive to Mrs. Robinson, then why did he turn to sadism and Dominance? It seems like if being a sub was helping him, and he was clearly able to achieve subspace in an enjoyable way, he would have stuck with being submissive.<\/p>\n

OH SHIT, I FORGOT WHAT BOOK I WAS READING.<\/p>\n

Let me explain to you why Christian went from being a sub to being a Dom totally unable to switch:<\/p>\n