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Faith is a very successful woman. Not only that, but she is the one who best deals with their family secret. When she caught Papa molesting Hope, she was t

Each of the women, Faith, Hope, and Miss Irene maintain their personal theories of the truth of this frightful secret in the back of their minds and choose not to put them out on the table in order to overcome them. When Hope has an affair with Ronald, Miss Irene’s current boyfriend, Miss Irene is fed up and therefore kicks her out of the house, and this lets out the secret of the past. Although the secret emerges at this point, it is not dealt with until Hope claims to have had an affair with Henry, Faith’s boyfriend of almost fifteen years. Faith, who always stood up for her sister when Miss Irene accused her, now begins to accept Miss Irene’s view of Hope being a selfish, heartless, little slut. She now begins to doubt that it wasn’t Hope’s fault that Papa molested her. I think that this is a very normal reaction because for Hope to do something like this to her own sister, who has shown her nothing but kindness and support, means that there must be a serious problem with her. In the end, Hope admits to Faith that it was all a lie and that the reason why she said that it happened was, “I wanted to see if you would leave him for me...Someone’s got to choose me, don’t they...Ain‘t I worth being the one that‘s choosed?” (219) Finally, once and for all the truth comes out about not only what happened with Henry, but also what Hope has been feeling ever since Miss Irene chose Papa over her. I think that this is a very powerful scene in the novel because the suppressed feelings of each character, especially Hope, become apparent, which then means that they can be taken care of at long last.

he one to tell Miss Irene. Unfortunately the truth never came out and instead Miss Irene blamed Hope. Faith, oddly enough, regretted telling Miss Irene what she saw because it seemed to have gotten them nowhere and she also, at first, thought that it hadn’t bothered Hope. The next day, after the episode between Papa and Miss Irene was when Faith noticed that the Barbie dolls that Hope was calmly playing with the day before were headless, naked, covered in blue ink on their stomachs, and the pelvic area on each had been viciously mutilated (46). I think that at that point Faith knew that Hope would never be the same and she hated Papa for that. Faith’s way of dealing with the situation is to try to suppress it just like her mother and sister do,

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