Quicksand*

We've recently read a book called Quicksand. It's mostly about this woman, Helga Crane, who's actually trying to find herself and trying to categorize herself to make peace within herself. She's both white and black, mixed. During the whole story, she mostly talked about how she missed her mom and how her Dad left her, whom was a gambler. She also talked about love and trying to fit in society. In the end, which was she after? Happiness? Love? Self-peace? In my opinion, she went after all of these because she always talked about feeling "at home" and also talked about different men in the story, some she had no feeling for and some she did. I really thought this book was VERY interesting and bipolar in a way because once she didn't like her placement in society from the beginning, being a teacher in Naxos, she wasn't satisfied nor did she feel happy about being there. She ended up leaving, and through the whole book, once she was fed up with a place or she felt like she had to leave because of her dissatisfaction, she left. In the end, it was like she felt "settled" in a way because she was married, had kids, and she couldn't run away from that! I think she never found that true happiness nor love, but rather settled.