All due to his sister's fears that his connection with children might prove to be a cancerous influence. It took away his profession, his connections with the outside world, and so on. Oscar was a cross-dresser, and the discovery of it ruined him. He became an icon of the sort of life they'd have to live.
Perhaps they discovered the same evidence that Terrence had, and felt a strong connection to him.
It was almost as if they idolised him and saw him as something of a tragic hero, they felt for what he had to go through, since they were in the same boat. The girls were also fascinated by Oscar, as though they knew more about him than we did. So he tried to put the kaibosh on their relationship. He feared that he'd watch the same thing become of his daughter that he had of his uncle, and he simply couldn't stand even the merest notion of that. He was outwardly hostile about her homosexuality as he believed wholeheartedly that homosexuality could only lead to personal ruination, based upon his own guilt. The discovery of one of his daughters being gay was too much, it pushed him over the edge and caused him to become more reclusive himself. The first two about saving someone in 1963, the latter about saving himself.) (Take into account the names of the books - Saviour, Pariah (meaning outcast), and Human. He wanted to go back and stop his younger self from ruining his favourite uncle's life. He was young and he didn't know any better, and as such this was guilt he carried around with him throughout the years. He ruined his uncle by making knowledge of his uncle's cross-dressing habits available to his mother. But what if JFK wasn't the target of his obsessions? In his book(s), they were focused around the idea of time-travelling to save someone. JFK was murdered in 1963, the same year that he made the discovery about his uncle. Interestingly, Terrence is fascinated with the murder of JFK. He turns to morphine in order to deal with his growing anxieties and decaying neurological state, since he's had to deny a base truth about himself. His pharmaceutical knowledge is now put to finding some relief to the huge amounts of depression he now feels. His sister threatens him with going public if he ever leaves. He repents upon his homosexuality, but he's now a prisoner of his own home. The '60s were a very conservative period, and this would have lead to all sorts of fears on Oscar's part - as he might have feared that being gay and a cross-dresser, and having this discovered by a young boy might be enough to get him institutionalised. What happened on that fateful day of 1963 was a discovery made by a young, 12-year old Terrence, one he took home with him to his mother. We find his cross, the symbol of his repentance, in a secret corridor amidst women's fashion posters. He asks forgiveness, but for what? He also has a cross, but where do we find it? It's easy to paint child abuse onto this, but with all of the secret areas of the house, one would think there would be some evidence of this. Something happened with Oscar that greatly upset his sister, and it lead to him being restricted to his home, and Terrence never visiting again. I'll preface this by saying that I'm familiar with the theories about Oscar being a pedophile, but after discussing this with a good friend of mine (Justlikesoup) for a while, we've come to the consensus that it's unlikely, and we have our own thoughts on the matter. This post contains spoilers about the subplot of Gone Home.
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