SHARON: Living Blood

The revelation of character, revealed a microscopic at a time before viewing the total nature of the being, is significant to Sharon because this is how Marilee comes to know the " panoptic stature" of her Uncle. By bits and pieces we have the secret of Sharon and the full stature of Uncle Hernan revealed to us in the narrative. He is revealed to us physically and through his habits (clean nails, snuff, same come on always, etc.) by Marilee, but it is Marilee herself, and the reader by consequence, who comes to understand the full stature of her uncle a little at a time. She gets indications and hints throughout the course of the narrative. For example, Melissa was Aunt Eileen's maid and promised her she would take wish well of Sharon upon her death. She encompasses some of the same traits and manners of Eileen, including the point that she copies her d?cor and does non speak like "other" Negroes but in a refined and learned manner. We see this through Marilee's eyes as she visits Melissa's house, "She had turned scraps of silk and satin into clever doilies for tables and cushion covers and had briar-stitched a library paste for her bed with rich dark pieces bound with a ruby-red thread; you could tell she had copied all her tastes from Aunt Eileen" (Spencer 805).

However, in that respect is something fascinate in the relationship of Uncle Hernan and Melissa, something that piques Marilee's curiosity all the more so because she is not welcome a

"I don't see why you don't go on back to Tennessee," mum said, cold as ice. "You know you ought to, now, don't you?"

nd expressly forestall to visit Sharon unless invited. We also see something amiss in Marilee's mother's response to Marilee's liking Melissa and her desire to spend time at Sharon: "'I wouldn't ask Melissa to read to me too long at the time, Marilee.' ?She likes to read,' I said. ?

I know,' she said, ?but I'm afraid you'll get to disembodied spirit like a Negro'" (Spencer 805). Her mother is not afraid she get out smell like a Negro, only that she will scupper some secret held by Sharon, one that is completely tempting to Melissa. She broaches the subject of visiting Sharon of her own volition, but her parents immediately stake to impose consequences on her if she does and she is sent to her room, threatening to stay there until she dies. Marilee is only more intrigued by the off-limits nature of Sharon and the fact that she has observed her mother treating Melissa without kindness like the followers exchange between her mother and Sharon:

"You aren't fooling anybody," Mama said. "If overlook Ellen?"

The day comes when Marilee finally "crosses over" and heads for Sharon. When she gets there she conceals herself while face into the window of her Uncle's house. What she sees there is Uncle Hernan and Melissa locked in a lover's embrace, "That motion, so much a part of him whom I loved, was for h
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