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In Nancy’s cabin, the children wait with Nancy and listen to her story. Quentin’s observation that Nancy’s eyes and voice seem like they “do not belong to her,” and notion that she is “living somewhere else,” “outside the cabin,” suggests that Nancy is consumed by thoughts about her inevitable death at Jesus’s hands. Although Nancy is trying to postpone the moment of her death by detaining the children, Quentin’s statement suggests that Nancy is already part of the darkness that is waiting for her and will consume her at the moment of her death.
The idea that Nancy’s form (which…