[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I'm sad that she's gone but it showed to me that she really isn't a selfish person at all, but just did something for herself in the house/acted on her emotions that one time and then was made to feel really bad about it.....anyways though, I think that she would have gone anyway and maybe wasn't so much what Jackson was saying but more that her boyfriend coming in had unsettled her and made it harder and she obviously wanted to be with him...it's not always a good thing and the 'treat' that Jackson may think to spend time with your loved ones in there, I don't think....he really is a little clueless with stuff like that...

I agree with all of this, but especially the part I've highlighted, because I really feel that ever since she pressed the buzzer she's been labelled as a selfish person, but committing a selfish act doesn't make you a selfish person. I think everyone at some time or another has done something selfish, and I'd wonder if any of the people labeling Emma as a selfish person have ever done anything selfish themselves. It's just a normal human thing that anyone can succumb to, but especially in extreme situations, and for Emma, being in the house and being separated from people she loved was an extreme situation, I mean she went in the house with the person she was closest too and even she'd left, and I don't think anyone is really going to understand how that might feel, or what kind of impact it will have on someone's experience, it kind of makes Emma's experience of being separated from loved ones unique, and the continued animosity towards her showed that they weren't going to understand how she felt, and the thought of being continuously reminded of the people she was separated from was too much, rather than her escape simply being a reaction to being called names as some people have suggested. That's my take on it anyway.