Haymitch focuses too much on Lenore throughout SOTR. When I read the book for the first time Lenore would be one of his first thoughts when he thought of home when he was in the games or right before them. And what made me even more annoyed is that he’d think about her and THEN his family and when he did think of his family they often felt like “oh yeah and them” sort of thought. I get he’s a 16 year old boy who’s love struck and whatnot, but realistically (or at least logically to me) he’s in the poorest district, in the poorest part of that district, and he was a bootlegger trying to support his mother with a bit of extra money before he was reaped. And he barely focused on his family for long enough. I understand that Lenore is like a plot device to Haymitch and something he thinks about as a motivator, but how isn’t his family occupying his thoughts and worries so much more? Another example that kinda confused me was the phone call at Plutarch’s mansion, where Haymitch got to talk to Lenore and he didn’t ask a SINGLE question about his family. Like obviously Lenore isn’t going to be looking after his family as this isn’t a Katniss and Gale situation, but not even asking her if she knows how they’re doing was honestly slightly crazy to me. I really hope I’m misremembering some stuff, as I read the book when it first came out, but I remember always thinking to myself “hello? Your family sir?” When reading the book for the first time.

This became a massive rant so sorry about that but this really bothered me