When I first started reading this story I was really confused because i was expecting a story about God or about something in the bible, but it wasnt quite like that. Its about a women named Mrs.Turpin, who was very large who was in a waiting room in a small hospital sort of like a garage. This lady is very judgemental . It was quite disturbung actually. She talks about a ugly girl, the trashy people also know as "white trash" and the black people but she reffers to them as "niggers". I dont know if this is how white women thought in the south but I wasnt surprised.
On page 820 she says that if Jesus had asked her to pick from being white trash or a nigger, she would have asked for another choice but if he said she had to pick one she would had begged a little more but then she would have picked to be a nigga but she aked to be a propper one not a trashy one. I like Mrs. Trpins interpretation of the social classes in the south.. She describes that at the bottom of the heap were most colored people, then next came white trash, then the home owners and at the top were home and land owners. Mrs. Turpin was at the very top.
Yoou can kind of tell what time frame this takes place, becuae on pg 823 they talk about how hard it is to get black people top pick cotton and how even they were moving up on the class ladder but they described it as the black people trying to be like the white folks. Toward the end she is picked out she is very mad and she constantly says why dont they pick on other trash meaning white people and then she says to pick on the black people instead its like the tables were turned like her, she finally got to feel like the people she talked about.
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I found Mrs. Turpin's preference to be a nice black woman interesting. She in one breath says that blacks are bad, but then says that she'd rather be black then white trash. I'm not sure that Mrs. Turpin felt she was on top of the pile, but That could be my inturpurtion of the reading.
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