If Mag only realized the negative influence she had on her daughter she might think about the question, "How many pure, innocent children not only inherit a wicked heart of their own, claiming life-long scrutiny and restraint, but are heirs also of parental disgrace and calumny, from which only long years of patient endurance in paths of rectitude can disencumber them?" (6-7)
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Another aspect that caused Frado to have a failed conversion was the lack of knowledge that she had about Christianity. Aunt Abby, a spiritual and motherly figure, began to take Frado to religious meetings. Frado, under the instruction of Aunt Abby and the minister, became a believer. Frado's initial conversion was very unstable because she still had a lot of doubt in her life. Mrs. Bellmont was the main figure that caused this doubt because she constantly told Frado the heaven wasn't for blacks. James was also a spiritual mentor for Frado. James talked about God to her on numerous occasions. On his deathbed he told Frado, "if you will be a good girl, and love and serve God, it will be but a short time before we are in a heavenly home together"(95). Although James and Aunt Abby start to guide Frado in the right direction, they never complete her conversion. It was as if they gave her the destination, but never showed her how to get there. Wilson explains Frado's frustration when she said, "she did not love God; she did not serve him or know how to"(99). Frado had no faith to build her relationship with God because she didn't know how to strengthen her faith. She could have strengthened her faith if she knew how to serve God. .
Wilson's novel showed many of the fallacies in Christianity, which also led to failed conversion for Frado. Wilson introduces the first fallacy through Mrs. Bellmont. Mrs. Bellmont, a self-willed, haughty, undisciplined, arbitrary, severe, and hypocritical woman was the one character that Frado associated with heaven.