The speaker's mother believes that men are superior to women so therefore women's chances of succeeding in life are small. The grandmother also believes that women should live under the shadow of men in order to accomplish something or be someone in life. These are some of the beliefs that the grandmother passed on to the speaker, but the speaker was smart enough to realize that it was just "guilt passed on in our bones" (22). The beliefs had to be passed on from generation to generation, in order to keep up the tradition. The speaker didn't agree with her mother, so she decided to break the chain and put an end to it. .
The speaker sees how her mother's life had no meaning. The grandmother "kept her room neat with silence" (17). She was an obedient child who grew up to be an obedient wife. She never spoke up, letting the cycle keep on going. If you compare their rooms, the mother's is always neat, quiet and dark; on the other hand, the speaker's room is full of "light," "music," and "miracles of survival". While the mother has light in her room, the grandmother has darkness and the daughter has "walls of smoke". The mother knows what she wants because the "light" in her room is her guide. The grandmother is blinded by darkness so therefore she doesn't know who she is or what she wants out of life. The daughter is only partially blind, so she doesn't know where she is going because the smoke doesn't let her see her future clearly. The daughter's room is neither dark nor light; there is a certain in between that gives her the advantage of swaying one way or the other. .
There is an "empty room," a room that has no meaning where women confine themselves and their insecurity grows. While in this room their ability to speak up deteriorates as if they are held down, pulled back by their own will. The mother wants to make sure that the daughter is aware of the content of "this waiting room where we feel our hands / are useless, dead speechless clamps" (12-13).
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