The major dramatic question "Will Jessie kill herself" is a valid one but I wouldn't choose this one because it is a simple question to think about and to explain. The question "Was Jessie really Mama's?" is a major dramatic question that I would like to answer and give an explanation about. This question is derived for one of the last lines Mama says, "I thought you were mine." She thought she knew Jessie because "they have lived together for so long there is very rarely any reason for one to ask what the other was about to do." Mama saw Jessie go through so much that she would be the one to convince her of not going through with this act. Mama wanted to be to the last hope for Jessie. She thought that she was protecting Jessie from her sickness but she came short at the end. And to add, Jessie was really the only person in Mama's life that Mama felt loved by.
This would be a great question, I think because it's not only about feeling sorry for Jessie and what she went through but for her mother because she feels completely responsible for leaving out a extremely important detail to Jessie's life which was one major cause in her death. The answer to that question would be no that Jessie was not Mama's. Jessie was convince that she was committing suicide and her reason behind. Mama didn't know and that is where she loses all knowing and control of her child. This mirrors when Jessie was a child and Mama didn't tell her about her fits. This results to bad communication through time in which one end of the line gets lost.
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