In this blog I’d like to explore what happened at Mrs. Maureen’s when Betsey ran away. To me it sounded like Mrs. Maureen ran a beauty shop up front for all the well to do black ladies and then as soon as you passed through the swinging door, or if it was an odd hour it was like she was running a bordello. When Betsey mentions all of the money that the people keep putting onto the table. She also mentions how people are strolling around half dressed. It’s unclear to me why Mrs. Maureen gives people back some money after she picks it all up off the table. Are both the men and women prostitutes? My other theory is that they could be a drug den in addition to a whore house. I think the entire part about Mrs. Maureen was kind of a strange interlude in the story. I think it was fitting that Betsey ran into Regina again and that Regina had fallen into hard times. Betsey LOVED Regina, and I don’t think her view of love or kissing was altered by seeing Regina’s hardship. I think Betsey truly believed that Roscoe was going to send for her. I also think it was interesting that Jane followed Betsey’s example and ran away when the going got tough at home. I really wonder where she went all that time. Was it like in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and the mother went to a mental hospital to calm down? That was the first thought that came to mind. Overall the book left me with more questions then it did a feeling of satisfaction.
Learning in the Age of the Trigger Warning
11 years ago
Well it was surely a beauty parlor and a whore house. I think then like now people were looking for ways to make more money so that was Mrs. Maureen's way. It was not a very postive way but in the same a way. I think this scene was one of the most important because in one day I think that Betsey did most of her growing up. Partly because she loved and admired Regina so much, it seemed like she really took what Regina told her. I was interested in knowing where Jane ran off to as well. I think she went to Mrs. Maureen's too because when Betsey came back she wondered when the last time she had been pampered like her daughter had. I think Jane ran away or attention though because she noticed how every one acted while Betsey was gone. But I enjoyed the book. Maybe the book left things out to leave room for a second book...
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