As Chapter 7 of the novel closes, Big Ma insists that Stacey “needs a good whippin’” for the way he speaks to his mother. Mama,
however, has a different view. She says, “It’s not a whipping he needs.… It’s David.” What does Mama mean by this? What does this moment reveal about Mama’s earlier reaction to Papa’s deciding to leave to search for work on the railroad?
Either add the passage with the question so we know what you are referring to or do not post questions like these. Not everybody has read what you have. This question is completely useless and unanswerable without the story to go off of.
