A family's Destruction
...fish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever an ever.” Her hate was passed down to the only son she showed affection to, the only son she ever loved. Jewel. The son she punished the most, but whom she favored, and kept a special place in her heart for. She was uncapable of telling her son she loved him for that would render her actions needless, she had rather show her affection in actions than say “I love you.” She had rather whip him than say “you need to be corrected in your doings.” Addie met Anse on a fateful afternoon, she realized that he went out of his way just to see her. He watched her and she watched him, until Addie decided that it was time to talk to that tall man who went by her school with just the purpose of seeing her. They hooked up and Addie had Cash. Her life was miserable, however, she did not hate Anse until they had Darl she felt he had tricked her and considered him dead, she thought:”Then I found I had Darl. At first I would not believe it. Then I believed that I would kill Anse. It was as though he had tricked me, hidden within a word like within a paper screen and struck me in the back through it.” Addie never felt anything but hate towards Anse after that moment and always though of ways to make her revenge as sweet as possible, with the trip to Jefferson resulting from her death it couldn’t have been more sweeter. One affair she had, from that affair she had one child: Jewel. The angry child, the one that never did what he was told the one full of hate for the world but loved his mother nevertheless. Her affair with Whitfield was over as fast as it had begun. For him at least, for Addie it had never begun and what did not began could not end now could it? Addie enjoyed sinning as she herself says it, “I would think of sin as I would think of the clothes we both wore in the world’s face, of the circumspection necessary because he was he and I was I[. . .] I would think of the sin as garments which we would remove in order to shape and coerce the terrible blood to the forlorn echo of the dead world high in the air.” Addie does not care for her family, she hates them for being born, except Jewel. She hates them for tying her down to Anse. In a way her death was not only the release of a soul but also the release of a grudge, a grudge capable of destroying a whole family. An spectrum that haunts them and sends them to their doom. ...