seems. This factor of unpredictability, in the interracial context, once again arises during the second chapter of "The Fall", when Dana states upon entering the antebellum South with Kevin for the first time "In this place, he was probably better protection for me than free papers would have been..." (Butler, 59.) As the reader continues to traverse the steep hills and gaping fissures of Butler's novel, it becomes quite evident that Dana could not have been further led astray by her assumption concerning Kevin's utility in the past. Though both initially see themselves in an "outside looking in" context, both characters slowly begin to change, adapt, and conform to the cultural norms of the nineteenth century. It is the gusts of change that sweep Kevin, though, that further impinge upon Dana's conception of her beloved husband.
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