When Annie returns, she forces Paul to burn his Fast Cars manuscript then buys him a Royal typewriter and tells him to write his "best novel," Misery's Return(67). When Annie finishes reading Misery's Child and discovers Misery has died, she becomes so upset that she leaves Paul alone for days. After cleaning it up later, Annie forces Paul to use soapy water to swallow his Novril. Her anger causes her to throw a soup bowl against a wall, shattering it. Paul quickly realizes that Annie is "dangerously crazy" and is keeping him captive in her home (10).Īfter reading the Fast Cars manuscript while Paul recovers, Annie becomes upset about its "profanity" (23). Drunk on celebratory champagne and caught off-guard by a storm, Paul crashes his Camaro while reaching for his cigarettes. Misery "died five pages from the end of Misery's Child," the last novel in the Misery series (15). Paul had just left the Boulderado Hotel after finishing Fast Cars, his first novel that did not "feature Misery" (15). Paul suffers severe leg injuries, which Annie sets crudely and treats with "a pain-killer with a heavy codeine base called Novril" (9). Misery begins just after Paul's car accident when Annie pulls him out of his car and drives him to her house, a remote farm outside the fictional Sidewinder, Colorado.
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