![]() When she thinks about it after a couple more visits and after getting Kevin back, she thinks that Rufus’s time was a “sharper, stronger reality”, and that “the work was harder, the smells and tastes were stronger, the danger was greater, the pain was worse”. She becomes more used to everything there and how it works. It’s the time that she grew up in, and it’s where Kevin and the things she likes/is most familiar with are, while 19th century Maryland is a time and place she’s been in for less than a day.Īs Dana starts making more trips back to the antebellum South, she has more experiences there and makes more connections with the people there. She also hasn’t really had any connections with the people there besides realizing that a few of them were her ancestors, so she understandably views her 1976 apartment as her home. ![]() Dana has had few encounters in the 19th century as she hasn’t been there for very long, yet the experiences she does have are mostly negative. ![]() ![]() She says, after her second sojourn to Rufus, “God, I hurt, and I’m so tired. In the beginning of the novel, Dana feels like the new apartment she is sharing with Kevin in 1976 is her home. ![]()
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