Saint Marie

This chapter was vastly different from the previous one. It has a much darker feeling about it. The narrator Marie Lazarre is the grandmother of Albertine Johnson. I'm not sure if Albertine has any previous knowledge of what Marie did in the convent. But I think if she did she would know that her grandmother was not always the kindly woman she knows. She was young and vain at one point in her life. She had her own problems long before she married Nector.

What also struck me was how Sister Leopolda knew that Marie would leave the convent. But as the first chapter showed the sister was right. It surprising that both Marie and Zelda wanted to be religious sisters (or nuns).  But both of them were stopped from becoming sister for different reasons. Marie because she was not devout enough (at least that is what I got from the chapter) and Zelda because she fell pregnant with Albertine.