Throughout chapters 6-8, Mama and Freda goes through different obstacles that they face with each other. Freda continues to grow older, maturer, and resembles Mama more and more. Ironically, Mama and Freda appear to switch roles with each other. For example, Mama begins to act more promiscuously and Freda is the one that takes care of her siblings more. She often tells Mama what men she shouldn't be around, for example, when Mama explained to her kids that she was seeing someone that Freda didn't approve of, she made sure to call her out on it. "Please don't tell us you like him, Mama. He a ladies' man. What you got that ain't none of them got?" (86, McMillan). One of the biggest and heated dilemmas between Freda and Mama was when Freda found out that she was sleeping with a guy twice her age. "Get up! Get your ass up! Right now!...he's young enough to be my boyfriend." (118-119, McMillan).
Is Mama starting to become a bad role model towards Freda and is she wrong for going after these certain men?
Should Freda mind her business and stay in her place as her daughter?
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