Discuss the differences between Grandma West and Grandma East. How do they support their families? How do their own superstitions impact their daughters?
Grandma West has never accepted the end of her relationship with Monife’s father and she is fixated on ending the curse. Grandma West has gone from relationship to relationship trying to end the curse. I think that Grandma East and Grandma West are actually opposite sides of the same coin. Through their behaviors they have engrained in their daughters the inevitability of the curse. To be fair, it is quite likely that their mothers did the same.
I thought of them as “opposites” in some ways. One more mystic and another always searching out men in her sphere. They both, though, were convinced the curse was real and reminded their daughters of the inevitable.
Appropriately named opposite directions as that is how they dealt with their family’s legacy curse. One dealt with it by practicing magic spells and the other tried to defy it by physically wooing men till she found the right one. Both perpetuated the generational trauma on their daughters they just used opposite approaches. Like the east wind versus the west wind they came at the problem from different directions but ended up with similar results.
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Polar opposites. One wanting to fix everything with potions and hexes, the other thinking she was going to break the curse if she found the “right” man to do so. Ok, I just changed my mind, they can’t be polar opposites if they both believe the curse exists…maybe just passing on the “fix” in a way that makes sense to their inner belief system. Neither method is based on solid evidence, but both women are convinced they have found the answer. I suppose these are the methods learned and passed down from generation to generation. Nothing will change until someone breaks the pattern.