Dana's character still interests me. For example, upon learning from Rufus that she was in the year 1815, she did not flip out (I don't think I could say that about myself), but rather, she "sat still" and believed him (pg. 27). At times I thought Butler should have made Dana more jumpy at first so that by the end of the novel, her transformation into a slavemaster-killing-machine would be more apparent.
I noticed that some of the other characters have adapted to a life of slavery, but in a different way. Sarah, for instance, "...had done the safe thing - had accepted a life of slavery because she was afraid... She was the kind of woman who would be held in contempt during the militant nineteen sixties" (pg. 145). I suppose I can say that this novel is about transformation, and that not all transformation is good.
And actually I had a question: What's up with the title "Marse"? Is it short for "Master"?
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