How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
She kind of liked the way fires went to extremes: either it was too hot or too cold. It had been the same way with the big kerosene stove they used to heat their drafty cabin back up home, in Provincetown. (5.5)
Leaving home means you’ll always compare your new home to your old one, even when the new one is way better. The trick is to make new memories in the new house. So instead of thinking of the big kerosene stove, maybe Dicey will start to think of the piano.
Quote #5
And Maybeth is better here—we all know that, don’t you, Gram? She’s not nearly so scared of things. Of people. It’s not so complicated for her here. Without Momma to worry about, and what people say. (5.230)
Dicey wants a home herself, but when she talks to Gram about it, she frames it in terms of what’s best for Maybeth. She’s been a caretaker for her siblings for such a long time, you wonder if she ever really thinks about her own needs.
Quote #6
The ocean rolled up toward her rickety cabin, like it wanted to swallow it up; but it never did. Maybe it didn’t even want to. The wind was always blowing around the cabin, like it too wanted to have that little building gone. (7.23)
In the paper she writes for English class, Dicey’s comparing her physical home to her home in Momma’s head, and the elements’ effects on their home to worrying’s effects on Momma’s sanity. This one's gonna be a good writer, folks.