Talk:Hans/@comment-26966341-20150915190613/@comment-26194791-20160112040907

Sings-With-Spirits, I think what you observed was casually derisive rejection rather than blatant sadism... Sure, Hans could never have regarded Anna with more than the flimsiest superficial affection to start with. Nonetheless, he merely expressed amusement with the (perceived) stupidity of that which he decided to dispose of. (While trying to get rid of Anna, the fact he now considered her useless erased all basis for his former attraction and amplified everything he considered laughable about her.)

Calloused mockery isn't exactly the same thing as going out of your way to cause *extra* pain...