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Throughout the novel, Joanna constantly sings nursery rhymes and recites scraps of poetry to the baby to comfort him. On one hand, this quote’s stream of consciousness shows the distress Joanna is under while she’s being held captive. On the other hand, it also suggests that Joanna’s reflexive tendency to resort to nursery rhymes isn’t just meant to comfort the baby—perhaps it’s a cover for her own anxiety, too, and a way of clinging to the few memories she retains of her own mother. This possibility is reinforced by the presence of her mother’s cry, “Run, Joanna, run,” concluding the…