Why I’m still relating to Wanda for her depiction of grief
Or, why I was crying 10 minutes into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
**Spoiler Warning for Wandavision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness**
The first time I watched Wandavision the now infamous line about grief punched me in the gut. And I hate that it became a joke on Twitter because for me, it hit me in a way that nothing else has.
I lost my dad in 2016 and since then my life was thrown into turmoil. It was painful and frightening and messy. But hearing the words “What is grief, if not love persevering?” helped to reframe a very dark part of my life as something important. As something more than just pain and sadness.
Through the show Wandavision, Wanda became a character I related to more than before and I didn’t really have any expectations on how that would continue in a sequel for Doctor Strange. To be honest, as a whole, the movie seems to forget or undo a lot of the work that Wanda did in Wandavision, instead wanting to quickly turn her into a villain for the twist.
But one scene still hit me…
Something that doesn’t get talked about much when discussing grief is the fact that sometimes the person you lost will show up in your dreams…
