That poor kitty. :(

I think this is the exact opposite of the point you're supposed to be gleaning from the movie. Christine is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It may make financial sense for the bank to take away Sylvia Ganush's house, but two extensions or not, it's slightly cold and inhuman. She had an eye disease, she lives on a fixed income, and she's old. Christine refuses to grant the loan out of selfishness: she wants that promotion more than she cares about Sylvia's well-being, just because Sylvia puts her gross teeth and fingers on her desk and steals her candy (two wrongs don't make a right). Repeatedly, throughout the film, when confronted by her decision, she tries to insist: "it was the bank! it was my manager!" when the manager clearly left it up to her. Then, to save her own skin, she's willing to go against her puppy-loving, vegetarian ways and kill a kitten, fails to express much sympathy when a medium who tries to help her dies, and even considers giving this curse -- a terrible, fatal curse that's her own fault -- to someone else. Christine may get dragged to Hell, but she has nobody to blame but herself.

Christine walking through the house with a huge knife & saying, "Here kitty kitty kitty."

After Mrs. Ganush knocked all her teeth out on the dashboard, she gummed the shit out of Christine's face, drooling all over her.

The handkerchief attacking Christine and trying to go down her throat.

blood going all over the boss's face and him asking "did any get in my mouth?" and then the asian stealing the file lol

the talking goat and when he bit that person's hand lol

I've been flinging these ideas around in my head, too. And while i do agree with what you say, I don't think that the character is receiving proper sentencing for her crimes.

Pre-"curse," we have all faced similar choices in our lives and certainly careers. I think the decision that she makes is very understandable and very human (especially when you weigh in some of the obvious baggage she carries around both implied and mentioned outright (farm girl, fat girl, not-good-enough-for-her-boyfriend-in-the-eyes-of-the-parents girl). In all fairness, it was perfectly legal and within reason to deny a loan to some sick old lady, who in all reality DID have a place to go and other options. It's not like this was a medical crisis or a matter of life and death (at least at first!). I'm not saying that I would kick an old lady on the street to benefit me and only me, but I do think it is to be taken into consideration that the line here is very gray.

Post cursing, most of her actions I feel are completely human though at times extreme. Let's face it, when Rham Jas mentions she'd be surprised what she would do when the Lamia is coming for her...he's absolutely correct. It's pretty much damned if you do, dammed if you don't. I mean, I am a cat lover and even I thought that was a desperate, disgusting, yet all too understandable decision for the stakes of the film.

She has the chance to pass on the button to Stu, but ultimately does not. She does blame the bank/her manager, but the rules of the curse are quite clear that it doesn't matter who she blames, sells out or how much she bargains or pleads...the Lamia is only interested in the owner of the cursed object. I'd be sizing up potential button takers in that position too, even if I never dreamed about actually passing it on.

I think the brilliance of the film is that the stakes for the character are ASTRONOMICALLY out of this world. The curse is a major game changer. She will be forever in agony, there really is no escape (as the plot goes on the chances of escape are slimmer and slimmer). Even if she decided to be a martyr and keep the button and grab her boomstick on her decent to Hell, she's completely screwed. She is no match for the powers that will tear her soul apart for eternity. No one is.

In the end, I think Raimi does a great job of presenting a pretty believable and fallible character, who certainly has made missteps, but in the end is not the kind of person who would deserve an eternity of suffering that very few ever could deserve.

The main thing it comes down to is that she just won't admit until after she thinks she's gotten rid of the curse that it was her decision to throw Sylvia out of her house, at the very end. She'll only backhandedly admit it to Sylvia's daughter (if that's who that girl at Sylvia's house was) when confronted about lying. She just thinks Sylvia's "a bitch" instead of considering on any really significant level if she herself is to blame. I suppose if she hadn't been consumed by the creatures of Hell, even regardless of everything terrible that happens in the movie, I don't know that she'd think twice about doing it again.

Doesn't matter whether she deserved it or not. Alison Lohman is way too cute for that fate :(