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             it. She ends up, supposedly, "seeing the light" while hosing down the pigs in her pig parlor.
             The first impression the reader gets of Mrs. Turpin is one of dominance. She is portrayed as "large" and "loud." She controls her husband, Claud, treating him like a child. She immediately takes over the conversation in the room and forces her opinions and thoughts onto everyone. She proceeds to judge everybody in the doctor¹s waiting room: pitying the girl with acne while she takes pride in the fact she "always had good skin"(341), and calling the "white trash" woman and child "worse than niggers"(341). After the reader is subjected to the different classes according to Mrs. Turpin, the reader hears an ironic lyric that Mrs. Turpin supplies. A hymn comes over the radio in the waiting room and "Mrs. Turpin, who knew it, supplied the last line mentally, 'And wonna these days I know I¹ll we-eara crown¹"(341). This line tells the reader that Mrs. Turpin believes she is so much better than everyone else that she wants to lord over them. She "knows" someday she¹ll be weari!
             ng a crown, meaning she believes she has some sort of "royal blood." In ancient Egypt, the people believed that their pharaohs were divine, meaning God chose them. It seems as if Mrs. Turpin is foreshadowing the ending when she believes she is so important that God, himself, talks to her. The reader gets an ugly look at the inside of Mrs. Turpin¹s mind where she thinks that if Jesus said to her "you can either be a nigger or white trash...she would have wriggled and squirmed and begged and pleaded" and finally decided to be black(342). This paragraph shows how Mrs. Turpin¹s prejudicial and bigoted nature controls her, even her thoughts on Jesus Christ. It shows just how
             racist Mrs. Turpin actually is. Even though she would "choose" to be black, she claims she would have a hard time deciding, and she would only be black if she cou...