Some people overcome their fears by learning about the thing they fear in order to defeat it when it does come. The collecting is a way of Katherine to show (to herself) that she has control over the spiders and not vice versa.
Now see, I’m terrified of them and scream and make sure they die (most times I’m to scared to do it. Other times I drown them and flush them down the toilet, and once I burned one to death. That was AWESOME)
I don’t get it; how can you be terrified of something and fascinated by it simultaneously?
Some people overcome their fears by learning about the thing they fear in order to defeat it when it does come. The collecting is a way of Katherine to show (to herself) that she has control over the spiders and not vice versa.
How can you control something properly without understanding all about it?
Its the whole concept of being interested in the unknown and wanting to observe from afar.
But it’s not from afar when she’s holding a box of them!
Now see, I’m terrified of them and scream and make sure they die (most times I’m to scared to do it. Other times I drown them and flush them down the toilet, and once I burned one to death. That was AWESOME)
Expert silent observer from the outside while remaining unnoticed, Katherine,
vs Expert observer of humans in social groups, Darin.