Langston was nothing but a Racist Pedophile and like all peodphiles he also weaved a fantasy of love within Lilly's childish slave mentality.  He continued to pleasure himself in this teenager while the Mathesons sustained Lilly in a continuation of slavery but merely without the physical chains of bondage.  The Matheson's knew that Langston was Raping the teenage Lilly but continued to allow it because they still considered Lilly as chattel just like in slavery where the White slaveowner and his White male friends Raped and had extensive sexual abuse of the Black female. Langston also weaves the fantasy of love into Lilly's mind to keep her compliant to his sexual use and also to give himself love along with the sex, thusly more pleasure for Langston and a web of hypocrisy for himself to excuse any feelings of real guilt.  

Lilly was an orphan baby whom the Matheson's took in, this gave them additional leverage to develop her in a crippling negative environment and sense of self; they did not permit her to receive education, they encaged her in a slave world, it was child abuse; instead of the love and protective care adults should give to any child entrusted to their care.

The year is 1945 just 80years after the abolishment of slavery but in the South a slavery culture was often still continued; as in the Matheson's household where Lilly lived in impoverishment cut off from the outside world wherein she would have discovered her humanity and legal rights as a person; but instead she was treated as chattel, worked  in a drudgery of domestic labor without real wages and not allowed to go to school, just like the chattel during colonial slavery.  Langston's Rapings included no use of condoms (for his greater sexual pleasure), putting continued pregnancies on Lilly's young body and possible sexual diseases.  He used Lilly like she's an animal and cared not for the children his sperm produced!  Langston is a Racist, self indulgent, Rapist, and hypocrite!

 If Langston had actually fallen in-love with Lilly he would not have continued her in her impoverishment but, he preferred her enslaved state; which permitted his Rapings of her!

The Mathesons are just as despicable as Langston and perhaps more since it is they who make Lilly's slavery condition that condones and allows Langston his sexual abuse of Lilly.  Lilly exists in a horrible pathetic state also, later Mavis, who continues the domestic drudgery and is often hit by Emit Matheson.  Mavis also becomes the mammy for Emily.  Mavis, presently, still calls Emily by title while Emily calls her Mavis, that too was the inequality custom between mammy and the White child she raised during slavery.

Okay I'm a little confused. Why is Langston is referring to Emily as Mavis' mother??? Emily introduced Mavis to him as her mother. Not the other way around. He said : "I think you know what. Your mother told me that we have the same father". I think he meant your DAUGHTER told me that we have the same father? Or am I wrong??? Its a little confusing with him referring Emily as Mavis mother.

Langston is referring to Emily as Mavis' mother???? "I remembered that your mother said that her name was Emily Matheson Hendricks ." I think there was somewhere else but I can't seem to find it.

Oh my!

So Langston jr was truly in love with Lilly but with it being the times it was he was not able to be with her and his child Mavis.

All this time Mavis thought that her mother was forced but in actuallity they were in love with each other.  More then likely the reason she cried when he left her bed is because she hated from him to go.  But there is a different perception that a childs sees when they don't know what is going on.  All this time the hatred that Mavis has felt toward her father could have been so different if she read the letters and her mother's writings.

I don't think even Ms. Trudy may have known the truth or maybe she did but Alvin her husband was more understanding of the situation.

Wonderful just wonderful

Thank you!

Happy writings.