How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I dreamed I was looking out my window and a man walked into the orchard and went to where it is and stood there pointing at it," Granny said. She looked at Louvinia. "A black man." (2.1.16)
It's kind of strange to imagine sharing your life with a group of people whom you deeply mistrust. Granny's dream reveals how she relies on the slaves to do all the work, but also realizes that their indispensability makes them a little bit dangerous—they know where all the silver's buried. Maybe she should have treated them a little better…
Quote #5
[Joby] and Granny were like that; they were like a man and a mare, a blooded mare, which takes just exactly so much from the man and the man knows the mare will take just so much and the man knows that when that point is reached, just what is going to happen. Then it does happen: the mare kicks him, not viciously but just enough, and the man knows it was going to happen and so he is glad then, it is over then.... (2.2.8)
We guess it's not entirely clear, but it does seem like Joby would be the man and Granny the mare. At first that seems kind of strange, because Granny is the master and Joby the slave. However, as we can see, the mare is really the one in charge because she can kick the man.
Quote #6
They lived in a two-room log house with about a dozen dogs, and they kept their n*****s in the manor house. It didn't have any windows now and a child with a hairpin could unlock any lock in it, but every night when the n*****s came up from the fields Uncle Buck or Uncle Buddy would drive them into the house and lock the door with a key almost as big as a horse pistol; probably they would still be locking the front door long after the last n***** had escaped.... (2.2.14)
What a crazy ritual! Every night Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy lock up their slaves, knowing full well that they're just going to go out the back door. They must be doing it for show, maybe to remind the slaves that they're in charge; however, the fact that they let them get out the back door also means that they share some of the control.