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Originally Posted by orchgamer
Their individual desires to be separated were both motivated by greed: financial greed and individual love.
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This seems a little unfair to me, equating financial greed and the desire to love. Both sisters did not court their fate equally, it only took one of them to accept the pact. The desire for love is not the lure here, it's the forfeit. Jody was willing to sacrifice love for money, Lily was not. The terms in which Lily refuses are also interesting, if she got the money she would just have to share it anyways, whereas to Jody he promises it will be hers all alone. The pact is perfectly calculated to polarize the peronality diffferences between the sisters and "divide" them. The division seems superficial however, as both sisters are still "bound" in the chain of events that Mephistopheles set in action. There is perhaps a certain symbolism that Jody's pact is found in Lily's skull.
The words about balance and counter balance from the end of the episode come to mind. Together, Jody and Lily had a kind of balance. Jody was hard, greedy and domineering, Lily was vulnerable, romantic and submissive. In the choice he offered, Mephistopheles disrupted that balance, ensuring the destruction of both.
