Post by MessalinaPost by Sparky SpartacusPost by MessalinaPost by green_manPost by Patricia ButlerDid anyone else notice that Brenda was buried at Deep Creek Nature
Preserve? Isn't that the same place Nate was buried?
I noticed that too and thought the same thing. Maybe it's Alan Ball's way of saying that Nate, despite everything, was the love of her life. For all his macabre leanings, Ball is, after all, a sentimentalist.
Which makes me wonder why he had Brenda name Willa Chenowith with
Fisher as her middle name.
Probably at least partly due to their final conversation in the hospital
right before Nate died. Also possible this is what they decided
beforehand. Naming babies these days can get complicated if the mom has
a different last name from the pop. Hyphenate - yes/no? If you do, which
name goes first? What might the surname look like after 3 generations?
Thats why its puzzling. She made the decision to make Willa a
Chenowith even though her sister is a Fisher, one assumes because Nate
told her he was going to leave her. So why would she decide to be
buried near him?
Mez
As someone else pointed out, the name may have had nothing at all to do
with that last conversation; it may have been something they worked out
when she was first pregnant. People are doing a lot of interesting
things with names nowadays. I have some friends who decided when they
married that either neither of them changed their last names or both of
them did. They opted for both, and so they each abandoned their own
surnames in favor of a third surname they chose together and now share.
In Nate and Brenda's case, being the kind of people they were, they
may have decided that because Maya was named Fisher, the new baby would
be named Chenowith, so both families were represented in their
offspring.