“I don’t need a man right now, I need a job.”
Although Mama Day contends that Cocoa should be married; Cocoa insists on acquiring a job which would warranty her stability and autonomy. Cocoa’s assertion portrays her feminist spirit which is incongruous with Mama Day’s conformist outlook on matrimony.
“And somehow, some way, it happened in 1823: she smothered Bascombe Wade in his very bed and lived to tell the story for a thousand days.1823: married Bascombe Wade, bore him seven sons in just a thousand days, to put a dagger through his kidney and escape the hangman’s noose, laughing in a burst of flames.1823: persuaded Bascombe Wade in a thousand days to deed all his slaves every inch of land in Willow Springs, poisoned him for his trouble, to go on and bear seven sons- by person or persons unknown.”
Saphhira Wade’s supposed actions which supposedly ensued in 1823 depict her as an classic femme fatale. She manipulates her husband calculatedly, terminates his life and inherits the Willow Springs. Despite her deprived rank as a slave, she outmaneuvers Bascombe. Her mysticism safeguards her from the adverse repercussions which would have befallen her for her depraved deeds.
“There’s a new fertility drug they carry over at the store it’s supposed to work miracles…Two of our customers already got pregnant from it.”
Bernice is convinced that the modern fertility medication would aid her to conceive. The conception is material in her existence for it would guarantee her that her companion would not desert her owing to her distressing childlessness.
