Option 2 Analysis
"What must Nella have seen? Not the ground, but an expanse. It was this step and then another, and another. This was what Nella saw. This was what Nella did. She was journeying to where her love was enough, and it could fill the sky." (156)
This quote from Laronne, Nella's secretary before she passed, has much deeper meaning to it than what may appear at first. A simple and straightforward analysis of this passage is that Laronne is explaining the moment leading up to Nella's death and what could have been going through her mind. Yet in reality, there's a much deeper meaning and thought behind this quote. A motif I've taken from this paragraph is that if you take all the bad things in life, and put them all together without accounting for all the good things in your life, it paints a picture in your mind that life is much worse than it really is. Nella took all the negative things in her life bit by bit, and each was a stepping stone leading up to the moment when she jumped off the roof with her children in her arms. She saw falling as flying, and hitting the ground as a relief to where she could forget about the mistakes she'd made in her lifetime.
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