I am distressed by Ellen's post on this subject, in which I find myself accused of trying to restrict discussion and then labelled a cold, austere historian. I would first deny we can know what an author thought. Well, I never said anything about what it is legitimate or not to discuss.
People can discuss what they want.
Secondly, Ellen is misquoting me. I have repeatedly asked for evidence from the text to support the attacks being made on Gilmore, but have seldom received any. I thus have not been persuaded that Gilmore is the unsympathetic, possessive, grasping, over-sexed character others have asserted him to be. I believe we read for deep personal reasons of all sorts.