Talk:Through a Glass, Darkly/@comment-120.59.194.219-20141230150001/@comment-26014718-20141230162233

Jessica had the biggest influence in Alison's behaviour and personality, I mean for the obvious reason is genetics. Other factors include the fact that she taught her daughter how to lie and that it is acceptable. That's one of the worst thing you can teach a child.

During Alison's childhood she experienced a mental abuse that influenced the way she is now. Her own mother taught to lie and asked her to rehearse it so it would sound believeable. And then Alison learns to tell another white lie here and there, until she becomes a master of deception and manipulation that she even starts to believe her own lies. Just like her mother.

This is the kind of role model Alison had in her life. She was youngest and all she had to look up to was a stoner older brother who she couldn't even get along with, a mother who couldn't even teach her right from and wrong and a father who seemed to never be around. I guess when you have a family like that you have no choice but to 'remember things differently'.

But then again from Alison's POV it was mostly likely normal for her because it was the way her mother taught her, and who knows what other mental abuse she suffered from her. I'm not saying this justifies Alison's actions, but it has too root from something. No one is born cunning and manipulative.

Being one of the only close female relative of Alisons, Jessica would have of course been someone who Alison very much looked up to, because she didn't learn to understand that lying to your friends and family isn't right. Which is probably why she ran away after she witnessed her own mother, who she thought she could trust, bury her alive.