How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
[…] he could almost believe that it was not to make money that he sold the whiskey but because he was doomed always to conceal always something from the women who surrounded him. (12.8)
Christmas feels compelled to keep secrets from all women he encounters, in order to maintain an emotional distance.
Quote #8
Among them the casual Yankees and the poor whites and even the southerners who had lived for a while in the north, who believed aloud that it was an anonymous n***o crime committed not by a n***o but by N***o and who knew, believed, and hoped that she had been ravished too: at least once before her throat was cut and at least once afterward. (13.1)
The town reveals its own misogyny and hunger for violence – they hope that a black man has raped a white woman, because it'll just fuel their racial hatred.