In true Lady Macbeth style, Claire is driven by naked ambition, both for herself and her husband Frank.
She has no compunction about getting blood on her hands, firing half her staff and relentlessly hunting down the vulnerable charity worker.
However, Claire is momentarily unsettled by the old lady's berating at the cemetery and suffers an uncommon pang of conscience until she witnesses the rebellious teenagers making out in the same cemetery and feels a twisted sense of vindication.
Frank meanwhile is busy manipulating everyone around him, the unions, the town mayor, even the priest ant the grieving parents to achieve his own ends.
He also has a moment of reflection when he notices the white tulips representing the purity and fragility of innocence in a dirty world.
The closing shot of the undelivered tulips symbolise the bond between Claire and Frank and their willingness to trample the weak and the innocent underfoot on their path to success.
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