“I walk as if I were in a dream. I no longer recognize the path or the forest.”
This passage occurred when Mellie was leaving her baby in the grotto. It is after she left her baby with her gifts. I found it surprising that Mellie would leave her baby in the grotto and leave it up to someone else to take care of Rose. Mellie does show compassion and love for Rose when she leaves gifts such as jewelry but I feel as if Mellie feels an obligation to leave her baby at the grotto; almost as if it is a cultural norm or of religious importance. I think that the passage shows how Mellie does not want to leave Rose at the grotto because she almost looses a sense of reality and the ability to discriminate between things such as a path and forest.
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