“But what must have helped most was the fact that Anne was an interrogator’s dream, a freely confessing suspect.”(p.3)
This quote really caught my eye as I was reading this book especially the fact that Anne was described as “an interrogator’s dream.” It’s odd to describe someone like that but for this situation, Anne really was “an interrogator’s dream.” There were no lawyers to represent for her which makes her responsible for her own words within a stressful environment. At that view, it does make sense no matter how odd it is.
This statement was unique to read because Anne truly was a “freely confessing suspect”. She would openly speak the words from the books she read and the lines her father told her to read. In our world, it is hard to find who the suspect is because everyone tells lies. Anne was telling lies but in a convincing way. After a while of being tortured by her father, it must have gotten easier because these lies have become her life.
I agree this is a very eye-catching statement especially because her case had grown famous amongst the community. The pressure on Anne to say the right words and keep the fabrication of her being a witch encompassed her whole being. Whether it be a case among the skeptics or the people who’ve believed, those eyes among her had grown exponentially which isolated her to keep up her act even more with her family whispering in her ear to serve them as a weapon.