So I just finished Bunny last night and I’ve already deep-dived into a million theory threads. >!While everyone agrees that Ava is obviously one of Samantha’s creations, some people still seem to think that other people can see her and that the bunnies realized Samantha’s amazing abilities through interacting with her. I think if we read this as a text closer to truth then it’s easy to see that Ava probably didn’t exist outside of Samantha’s head. Further, we see people like Jonah may also be creations or at least manipulated by Samantha’s mind with the closing lines of the book. Then comes the next category of people – if we believe there is any truth of Samantha going to Warren at all, she seems to have manipulated the people around her into animal archetypes too – like the Lion who at the end of the book appears perfectly normal. I think Samantha picked up on the girls calling each other Bunny (or even ascribed that) and has created her entire personal interaction with them out of animals. Jonah in fact refers directly to this at one point when he asks Samantha if she’s okay now after talking to the rabbits on the lawn. “Earlier this fall, you were talking to those rabbits. Remember, on the green? You looked sort of freaked out.” Jonah says this in chapter 17 and I haven’t found anyone else referring to it anywhere. If Samantha is schizophrenic and has either created everyone she interacts with (e.g. Max, Ava) or at least manipulated them in her head and made up interactions and impressions of them (e.g. the Lion, Jonah) why are we discounting that she would do this with the bunnies too? Especially since the bunnies always call each other by their actual names during other parts of the book. I don’t know, it just seems like this line is a super important detail. Thinking about the scene where the bunnies all jump Max as well, it constantly says they make bunny like grunts and sounds – that would also explain their weird group obsession with him? It would have made more sense if he had been that large hairy bunny she had tried to create into a boy but even as a stag, maybe that’s what happened?!<
Anyone have any thoughts on this?? Please I’m super desperate to talk about it\~
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