Looking into the Minds of Sociopaths

Many can classify Olivia, Corrine and Malcolm Foxworth’s behavior  in this novel as that of a sociopath,  another book where I found a similar situation is in The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. The author  of this novel like Virginia C. Andrews explored the subject of sociopaths and how dangerous they can be to the people around them. These two books are not for the faint of heart but they do give a realistic portrayal of sociopathic behavior. Corrine and Olivia are not serial killers and do not  pose a threat for people in general, but in the scenario given in Flowers in the Attic they show their cruelest and most basic side in dealing with the Dollanganger siblings.   These women  do not want to think what they do is wrong, so they look for refuge in religion, debauchery and eccentricities to forget about their secret lives as tortures of the children in the novel. In the case of Corrine, she mentally is trying to pretend that they do not exist, so she chooses to murder their children in a slow  manner as a way of trying not to deal with the fact she is commiting infantacide. Olivia is for the reader a little bit mystifying because we don't know much about her past, but is hinted that she may have been a mind control victim in her childhood.