What do you infer from Mrs. Turpin’s conversation with the black farmworkers? Is she their friend? Why does she now find their flattery unacceptable (“Jesus satisfied with her”)?
What will be an ideal response?
- Ruby Turpin is not the friend of her farm workers. They listen to her story with awe, but the reader knows this is purely a charade. The reader senses that this is the first time they’ve had such a long “conversation,” and their words are empty flattery. It seems this is also the first time Mrs. Turpin has been dissatisfied with their flattery of her, for before this moment, she has believed that she really was the “sweetest white lady” on earth (par. 159). This encounter moves her an inch closer to her final epiphany, leading to her “moment of grace.”
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