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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Well, I suppose as you say My interpretation is probably too obvious because of course the story is full of various deaths, not only the two murders at its centre. Perhaps Grace is a person surrounded by the deaths of others, and the question is whether she is responsible for any of them.
It could be to do with moving through life towards something: in Grace's case, towards freedom. Dr Jordan certainly seemed for a time to offer her best chance to achieve that.
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I'm getting a little impatient with Atwood over this; I understand that she didn't want to pass judgment on Grace's innocence or guilt, in fact that's the whole story, but I think she was too prone to be suggestive without payoff.
Crossing a river to freedom also calls up the suggestion of Eliza escaping to Ohio, and in the context of this book there's a former slave now that slavery is no longer legal in Canada in addition to the imminent American Civil War. But too much of it is unearned, IMO.