I kinda saw it as being dismissive, like in the sense of the activity not mattering in the long run or being otherwise pointless. After all the crap she's been through, especially with seeing people go from good to horrible in the blink of an eye, this seems pretty insignificant.
But looking back at it and thinking about Joyce's expression, it seems like she has a lot on her mind and knows that Dorothy will take care of everything since she's an overachiever-type like me.
You know, I usually enjoy DoA, but these past few Months have been so depressing that I'm starting to lose interest in reading. It doesn't have to be jolly and fun all the time, but damn. This is bumming me out.
Same. That's why I've been trying to quit. Morbid curiosity keeps bringing me back after a few days. But I don't feel like I'm getting anything of value from reading it. It's just aggressively sad without any happy endings in sight. Just about everything is going downhill. The only person in a good position is Becky, because she has a chance to start over. But that's after the horrifying Toe-Dad plot, so I'm not sure Becky's situation counts for much here.
It feels like "I had a crappy experience, so everyone needs to have a crappy experience equal to or worse than mine. Everyone must suffer. Every little bit of light must be extinguished." And I don't mean that in the "laughing maniacally sense"--I mean it in the sense of a sullen Willis curled over his drawing as he thinks about how miserable he was growing up.