THE BATH SCENE OMG. It's so funny and yet so sad! And it's also interesting (with regard to the bath scene but also in general) how many different facets Aunt Morgen herself has; it would have been easy to make her a flat evil figure, and she certainly has her bad moments, but at the same time I think she does genuinely love Elizabeth (at least her non-Bess parts) and even loved her sister, although it's clear that she also retains a loooot of anger toward her sister and it does express itself sometimes in her relationship with the daughter.

Let's be real: within months/weeks/days of the end of Hangsaman, Natalie probably goes into a nervous collapse. She's just lost her one friend in all the world who AT BEST abandoned her in the middle of a forest, AT WORST was plotting against her all along, and (possibly even worse than that?) might have been a hallucination.