e also suffered emotional damage caused by her mother. She knew the physical treatment her mother gave her was damaging, but what she experienced the most was doubling. Doubling was done when something happened to Martine or Sophie that they could not deal with on their own. It was like stepping out of character and going to a happier place. For Sophie, this was done during her mother's testing and when she had sex with her husband Joseph later on in the novel. Another analogy of the color red was the outfit that Sophie decides to bury Marti
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