Once Norman realizes Rose's flight, he resolves to hunt her down. Rose reluctantly decides to leave Norman, departing from her unidentified city on a bus. Rose realizes that she has passively suffered through Norman's abuse for fourteen years and that if she continues to put up with it, he may well eventually kill her. Nine years later, when Rose is making the bed, she notices a drop of blood on the sheet from her nose the night before Norman had punched her in the face for spilling iced tea on him. The subsequent lawsuit and Internal Affairs investigation has made him even more volatile. Norman also has a violent temper, and was recently accused of assaulting an African-American woman named Wendy Yarrow. Rose briefly considers leaving Norman, but dismisses the idea: Norman is a policeman, and is excellent at finding people.
In the prologue, which takes place in 1985, Rose Daniels's husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to suffer a miscarriage. Also like many of his other works (especially in this time period), it deals with the subject of domestic violence.
Like Insomnia, the novel draws heavily from Greek mythology for its metaphysical elements.
The book was released by Viking in June of 1995, and is related to King's Dark Tower series. For Rosie to survive, for her to have a chance in her brave new world, she must enter her own myth-a world that lies beyond the surface of a work of art-and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder.The Green Mile Rose Madder is the 35th book published by Stephen King it was his 29th novel, and the 24th under his own name. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. The fact that he's losing his mind might even be an advantage. Her husband is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. It may be bad art but it's perfect for her new apartment-and somehow, it seems to want her as much as she wants it. Meeting Bill Steiner is one and finding a junk-shop painting is another. She'll worry about all the rest later.Īlone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things start to happen. She uses her husband's ATM card to buy a bus ticket, determined to lose herself in a place where Norman won't find her. Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight.
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