The first epiphany comes just as the grandmother utters her final words. Prior to this
moment, she has proven a woman of much professed religion and great hypocrisy in the way she
lives her life. For example, early in the trip, as they pass an African American child, the
grandmother reacts with great prejudice:
"Oh look at
the cute little pickaninny!" she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of
a shack. "Wouldn't that make a picture, now?" she asked and they all turned and looked
at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved.
Unbelievably, comments and thoughts such as...
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