All this is a bit weird. In any other genre, a domestic abuser is a domestic abuser and that's it: he's a horrible person, and at some point he gets the fate he deserves (or not, if the work is really dark). Period. Pym must be the only case where a fictional domestic abuser has people rooting for him, trying to find excuses for him, asking for redemption and treating him as a misunderstood moral champion. Fortunately, most writers and editors know better than that.
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