What did Linda Drysdale do to upset her father?
During Knives Out, we learn that
Harlan cut his family out of his will, and left his entire fortune to his nurse, Marta.
His motivation for this, with regards to his family members, can be explained:
His son, Walt seems unsuited for running his publishing company, and constantly pushes for movie rights, against Harlan's wishes.
His other son, Neil is deceased, but presumably the inheritance would have gone to his wife. However, we discover that Neil's widow, Joni, was cheating him out of money for her daughter's education
If we're counting in-laws, his son-in-law, Richard, who is cheating on his daughter, Linda.
However, for Linda he still seemed to care for her based on what we see in the movie with him leaving her a letter telling her about Richard's infidelity and the lack of any conflict shown. So why
did he cut her out of his will?
Best Answer
I agree that Linda is the least worse
person who boasts about being totally self-made while neglecting to mention the million-dollar loan her daddy gave her to get the business started. She’s ruthless and has a dirtbag husband and a cretin for a son, but by Thrombey standards, she’s not half bad
But still, she wasn't considered a good person or even a good business woman in her father’s eyes.
Also she wasn't short on money, so she can continue without getting an additional fortune
Although Linda won't inherit any of Harlan's money, she still has income from her own business
You can also argue that he didn't want the money for Linda to effectively be used by her husband.
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Why did Harlan leave Linda out of the will?
She passed the dogs' "character test." There was no need for Harland to cut Linda out of his will in order to prevent her cheating husband from getting a single red dime of his fortune.What does the note say in the movie knives out?
Fran made a copy of the report's header, storing the original in the same clock where she hid her marijuana (the "stash" she sometimes shared with Marta and Meg), and sent it to Ransom with the note, "I know what you did," along a meeting time and place, where she intended to confront him.Is Meg a good person in knives out?
Meg is the most morally grey out of all the Thrombeys. Being a modern day college student, Meg fights for a good cause but it's often debatable whether or not she actually cares for the people she stands up for or is just focused on the cause itself.Why did Richard have a black eye in knives out?
At the epilogue, Linda Thrombey finally manages to decrypt the message Harlan left her, exposing the affair of her husband Richard, and stares at him dejectedly. Shortly after, in the very last scene, Richard is seen sporting a black left eye, implying that Linda is the one who caused it.Golden Buzzer: From The Audience to The Stage, Maddie Shocks The Judges With Her Voice | AGT 2022
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Linda, with her husband's fidelity issues, was certain to be going through a divorce soon. As such, her husband would lay claim to half her inheritance. I don't think Harlan disliked her, I think he just didn't want any of his children to get the inheritance, and there were certainly reasons to exclude every one of them. Linda, to her credit, didn't need the inheritance, she had already built a real estate empire which started with a loan from Harlan, so it's easy to say his conscience was clear when it came to her share.
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