User blog:Suzanne Beryl/Aunt Marie's Trailer

Aunt Marie's trailer has many parts to play in the Grimm series but one of its functions is a symbol for spinning wheels.

The trailer holds evidence about the Grimm world so by driving it away from Juliette's house Nick is symbolically keeping knowledge of the Grimm world from her. Paralleling, in Sleeping Beauty, the King burns all the spinning wheels in the kingdom keeping knowledge of spinning wheels from Beauty. There certainly are none allowed in the castle and Nick's pulled the trailer away from the castle.

Only after Juliette's been scratched does Nick agree to tell her about the "secret". Where does he take her? To Aunt Marie's trailer. But of course he's disjointed so she can't make sense of what he's showing her. It's like when Beauty sees a spinning wheel for the first time. She doesn't know what it is. She asks the old woman spinning, "what is this?"

In Season of the Hexenbiest Adelind tells Juliette Marie was Nick's aunt. New information for Juliette. I think Adelind has triggered something. Adelind asks where aunt Marie's trailer is. Juliette thinks back. I figure Juliette's going to keep thinking about this until she remembers this is where she was when she was crying in the rain. And Nick has already told her he was with her then and said, "I want to tell you but you wouldn't understand."

So I think Juliette's going to realize that "whatever Nick is hiding from me must be in that trailer."

Meanwhile, in the royal families storyline Adelind tells Renard wouldn't the trailer be a great place to hide a key?

Now "key" has two meanings. It's a physical object and it is a metaphor for "the heart of the matter". As a physical object it is the map in the royal families storyline. Juliette is not part of that storyline so she's not going to care about the physical map.

But the word "key" also means "that which is pivotal". The trailer would unlock knowledge of Grimms. She already knows Nick is a Grimm from Bud. When she learns? what a? Grimm is? in the trailer I think Juliette will say "well there's insanity in his family, good thing I'm not having children with that guy."

It could also tells her about hexenbiests but I don't think she's going to learn about Captain Renard from the trailer or from Nick. I think she's going to learn that lesson in experience with the Captain's mother.