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to its participants. The narrator, Manon, is the unhappy wife of a man who had taken their slave, Sarah, to bed. This is of course not an unusual situation. It
is suggested that men like Thomas Jefferson would create love children with their slaves and of course, mistresses are often accepted in marriage. Yet, there is something else that goes
on here, and Martin (2004) weaves an intriguing tale of passion and of disappointments. At the heart of it all is the narrators plight. A student writing on this
subject submits a quote from the book as follows: "Yet she was wrong as well, for it wasnt childlessness that had chilled it. It was the lie at the center
of everything, the great lie we all supported, tended, and worshipped as if our lives depended upon it, as if, should one person ever speak honestly, the world would crack
open and send us all tumbling into a flaming pit. My future was as dark and small as Joels was bright and wide, yet it was my duty to pretend
I did not know" (Martin, 2004, p. 179-180). Here, the narrator speaks. The narrator is the white woman who is not happy in her circumstance. The preface to the quote
is that the narrator, Manon, is holding Joels hand while he talks about how things will be once he has money (Martin, 2004). He speaks about the home he would
have and things of that nature (Martin, 2004). This is what men do. They dream. Just before the quote provided, the narrator says: "I pasted an imbecilic smile on my
face while Joel rambled on, but I was thinking gloomily that my auth was right, my heart was cold" (Martin, 2004, p. 179). What comes before is important. The quote
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