“Down in the grass, like the snake she believed she was, Seth’s opened her mouth, and instead of fangs and a split tongue, out shot the truth.”(pg 39)
The starting of this scene gives us a chill where we see that Sethe wants to bite Amy as she thought Amy was a “whiteboy” who would try to harm her. When Sethe was hiding she had a whole plan she was going to follow of biting this person and eating it up. As soon as the person came close she realized it was a female and maybe Sethe got a little sympathetic. She seemed to be so strong and had strong hatred for a “whiteboy” but when she saw it was a white female she came out with the truth. This shows me the character of Sethe and her personality. It shows even though the era had a huge gap and discrimination in race she was still good at heart for other females,I would say. She could’ve probably harmed Amy but instead she spoke the truth.
This can also be a horror moment when she thought it was a male who has done so much harm to her family and she did not know what to expect so she had a reaction ready to be taken part.
