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Berniece’s and Boy Willie’s mother, Mama Ola, clung to the family piano in a different way than either of her children. After Boy Charles was killed for his involvement in taking the piano from the Sutters, the piano was all that Mama Ola had left of her husband. She tended the piano obsessively in turn, weeping over it and adding her own blood to her late husband’s blood that was symbolically present on it.
It’s easy to see how this legacy would become a heavy burden for Berniece. Her mother’s constant requests for music seem to have been Mama Ola’s…