Quicksand Revist

I posted a blog already on Quicksand, but I want to make another one after our class discussion which gave me a different take on the book and not just my own thoughts.

Well my first impression wasn't really that far off I don't think, I did make it clear that I did not enjoy the book as much as the other articles we read such as Narrative of a Slave girl or "Their eyes are watching God." film, but I concluded before hand that the book was suppose to represent loneliness and nothing more, but at the end of our discussion I thought that it was more than just loneliness and pessimistic thinking, Helga Crane was and still is I think a difficult character to like, you would think that the main character has to have some sort of redeeming value in order for you to want to follow them but at first I found none, I found myself not really caring that much what happened to her afterwards because of her attitude towards others and her isolation to only herself, she's a rock, she doesn't let others into her life and pushes most of them away, she goes to Chicago, New York, and Denmark and in most stories I've seen it only takes one trip for the person to have that "revival" and realize she doesn't belong and her life was fine where she was, but in Quicksand it takes three trips, and even after she comes back from Denmark she doesn't really get that happy ending.

I still don't really or can't exactly grasp the ending, I said in class I wasn't sure how to feel at the end, I thought it was to be a lesson for others to not do what she did, I think it's more about her race and that she was mixed and she didn't literally have a peoples or people to relate to but she does accept black people as her race, I think the main point to this story...quote me...is that in the beginning she would not open up to anyone, she was confused to who she was, and at the end she finds acceptance and she accepts herself for who she is, I think that was the most important thing for this story and the main point.