At this point Sophie has moved to The United States after a very bitter good bye to Antie Tate, and is now with her mother. Sophie then gets to know her mother and enters her apartment. Sophies first discover is a picture of her mother her and Tantie Atie. She says ” I did not look like them when I was a baby and I did not look like them now” This piece of text is important because it helps us understand that she is beginning to question her existence and foreshadowing the bitter truth about what her existence is about.