Before I get into what you wrote Ravyn, I'd like to say to Super Dave,way to go, you reeled me back in with this topic because I had no idea what you meant at first. BTW great theory, and one, I would have a hard time disagreeing with.
That PR was a narcissist is obvious to me. One look at PR's Miss America contest photo, and it is also obvious her beauty never held a candle to that of her daughter's. Was there some aspect of PR's personality that hated the knowledge of that while also reveling in being the "stage mom" of a beauty queen? I think so. Jonbenet didn't create Jonbenet the beauty queen, but PR was certainly responsible for that, and it likely made her think more highly of herself, ie., "Jonbenet would be nothing without me." Hypothethical quote.
Like the Queen in "Snow White" when she found out she wasn't fairest in the land.
Now, what would a PR think if this little beauty queen she made, also drew the affections of her husband? Wouldn't that be a slap in the face? If PR also had some borderline tendencies, Jonbenet may have been a beauty queen PR doted on one minute, and thought of as a little trollup the next. A real love/hate set-up.
Exactly what I was wondering.
Ravyn, the staging was vital to the notoriety of the case, intending to cast Jonbenet as the tragic little beauty queen, cast PR into the limelight as the tragic, grieving, and beautiful mother, while at the same time recalling PR's time as a beauty queen herself. The paint brush goes back to the love/hate relationship, and the trollup aspect. PR likely blamed Jonbenet more than she blamed JR, seeing Jonbenet as the seducer rather than the victim. Jonbenet had to be as large in death as she was in life to make PR more important.
WOW. :clap: :clap: