Yup! Linus loves his sister, even when she's intimidating him.
I personally feel that Lucy loves her brothers. She just doesn't want to admit it because the only person she does admit to loving, doesn't love her back - or so she thinks. In some ways, you really have to wonder about Lucy. Where does she get all this bossiness and meaness from? Why doesn't it show up in her brothers? Is it all a defense or is she just not good with expressing her feelings? Charles Shultz, in an interview, once said that Lucy's weakness is her love for Schroeder, that she's very vulernable when that love is in control. That suggests that who ever Lucy really is is only visable to the reader when she's with Schroeder.
I think - and this truely is just speculation - that as Lucy's brother and the 'wise old man' of the Peanuts cast, Linus realizes this. He's only gotten fed up with her enough to physically fight her once and once reduced Lucy to tears by admiting to loving her.
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Date: 2007-11-06 12:20 am (UTC)I personally feel that Lucy loves her brothers. She just doesn't want to admit it because the only person she does admit to loving, doesn't love her back - or so she thinks.
In some ways, you really have to wonder about Lucy. Where does she get all this bossiness and meaness from? Why doesn't it show up in her brothers? Is it all a defense or is she just not good with expressing her feelings?
Charles Shultz, in an interview, once said that Lucy's weakness is her love for Schroeder, that she's very vulernable when that love is in control. That suggests that who ever Lucy really is is only visable to the reader when she's with Schroeder.
I think - and this truely is just speculation - that as Lucy's brother and the 'wise old man' of the Peanuts cast, Linus realizes this. He's only gotten fed up with her enough to physically fight her once and once reduced Lucy to tears by admiting to loving her.