Dana's homes are her house in California and the Weylin plantation in Maryland in Kindred. However, the idea of home also applies to the two time...

The
complexity of her relationship with each of the time periods is hard to overstate. Her life in
the 1970s obviously is much better because she is a free woman with a relatively good and happy
life, as well as a caring husband. However, when she is thrust through time and space into the
1800s, she becomes a slave. This would make it easy to assume that she feels much more at home
in the present, but it neglects the connections she makes in the past.

In the
1800s, in spite of being a slave, she grows close to Alice, her ancestor, and learns to love
several people in that time period. Because of the kinship she feels, she is not quite as alone
in the past as one might imagine. Therefore, she feels "at home" in different ways in
each time and place. However, in the end, she is more pleased to return to her own time,
signifying that she is most at home in her own time period.