Talk:We Need to Talk/@comment-26466034-20150619024805/@comment-26462356-20150619042528

My take is that

1) Pearl has seen Rose go through who knows how many men over the course of 5000+ years.

2) Rose is distraught after the man dies/leaves, and Pearl has to pick up the pieces.

3) Pearl now does what she can to discourage any man interested in Rose, not out of jealosy, but out of wanting to protect Rose.

4) Neither Pearl nor Rose has really come to understand humans in all this time.

5) Meanwhile the Silent Watcher (Garnet) has come to understand what is going on, and recognizes, with her Future Vision, that Greg has real potential.

6) Thanks to Garnet's encouragement, Greg becomes the first man to stand up to Rose and demand to be treated like an equal instead of a pet.