After visiting Mama Day in Willow Springs, George realizes the strangeness of the place on the island and says, “I had to be there and see-no, feel – that I was entering another world” (175). The visit across the bridge at Willow Springs takes George into a new and unknown world which suggests perpetuity, the specific meaning and spirited spirituality of the place full of vagueness and bizarre events. Mama Day’s family has been living on the island for centuries. Mama Day serves as a link between the inhabitants on the island and the outer world. She is an elegant, sensible old woman for the inhabitants of the island who has wits about the good and bad for the community. She represents a pastoral, nostalgic recollected memory and admiration
