When she realized she can not have him, this is where she recognizes her own fatal flaw, And now she had forfeited it forever. Forever. Helga had an instantaneous shocking perception of what forever meant. And then, like a flash, it was gone, leaving an endless stretch of dreary years before her appalled vision (340). After this realization, she basically throws her life into the sketchy Rev. Pleasant Greene in a life more oppressed than any she had chosen before.Her childhood continually haunts her. In every situation she is reminded of her feeling of not belonging and her discontent. Her mother was white and her father black. Her father left her mother, and Helga lived her childhood in a place where nobody cared to include her. Her stepfather and siblings despised her. All this proved too much for her to handle. She could not see love (Anderson) when it was there because her fear was much to pervasive in her life. Thus, when anything uncomfortable occurred around her, she ran away. In the end, it was her downfall. She was doomed to live her life in the thresholds of the oppressive South with many children and empty religion. ...
