End of the Book Stream of Consciousness

• Nyasha's feelings of falling apart and not having a way to express her fracturing
• Babamukuru is a nervous and frenzied sort of man who seems to hold control but is really just frantically grasping at it
• His "maleness" makes me think of him as a completely nervous and uncomfortable person
• Tambu's mother is passive out of depression, not because she actually cares about how her husband feels
• Melancholia: "Those who are depressed are the most calm in dangerous situations"
• Tambu knows she is passive but at this point doesn't care to change because all the things she is passive about are not that important
• Her reverence for Babamukuru led her to become demotivated because if makes the decisions, she doesn't have to try hard to obey him
• Babamukuru breeds "unnatural children"
• Nyasha and Chido as hybrids
• Tambu's utmost and all consuming respect and reverence for him
• Babamukuru only has two mindsets, good vs. spoiled
• Uses the "spoiledness" of the girls to deny them basic privileges
• So worried about his authority he is absolute when he doesn't allow people to object to him, instead of letting them object and then explaining to them why that is not okay.
• Has no sense of honor or decorum, unlike Okonkwo
• Goes straight to threatening instead of negotiating and being reasonable
• Lots of talk of obedience
• So panicky
• Never seen as human in the eyes of the others
• A way of the woman oppressing themselves
• Didn't earn his respect
• Babamukuru skates the line of being misogynistic and it's very annoying
• Nyasha's worry about others led to her being proud Maiguru left and also her psychotic break
• Weird things with "the girl" and "the man"
• Distancing herself from her family
• Female competition over education prevalent everywhere
• The passage about "looseness" on page 184