Are you saying, in essence, that it doesn’t matter whether this turns out not to be fridging in the end, because Eliezer could have chosen not to use a literary device that looked like fridging, and yet he did?
It is a fridging. It’s using fridging as a means to an end.
Are you using “fridging” as interchangeable with “female character’s death”? If not, how are you using it?
Are you saying, in essence, that it doesn’t matter whether this turns out not to be fridging in the end, because Eliezer could have chosen not to use a literary device that looked like fridging, and yet he did?
It is a fridging. It’s using fridging as a means to an end.
Are you using “fridging” as interchangeable with “female character’s death”? If not, how are you using it?