6/22/2023 0 Comments Hag seed bookWhen he tells the ghost of his daughter to “be free” at the end of the novel, Felix uses the rhetoric of imprisonment and release to express that freedom is a matter of personal choice.įor the inmates at Fletcher Correctional Center, however, imprisonment has nothing to do with personal choice. Ironically, it’s by going to work in a real concrete prison that he’s able to liberate himself by finding new purpose. In this sense, he keeps himself in an emotional prison for most of the novel. After getting fired from his job, Felix exiles himself to a primitive cottage and allows himself no contact with his former life he becomes so obsessed with his grief for his daughter Miranda and desire for revenge on Tony that he’s unable to form new relationships with others. Prisons, both mental and physical, dominate the novel.
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