Contributor: Megan Colleen Hillier
Informant: Anonymous
Title: Candlelight Mom’s Night
Semester/Year: Fall 2005
“I found out one week; it was right before initiation. I was told to come to chapter. At the end of chapter, we got in a circle and turned the lights off and, like ev–, um, there was a candle and it was passed around the circle. They sang a song, and my mom blew it out.”
Context: Contextually, the interview was conducted in the guest room of the informant’s chapter house and was, again, experienced as a conversation between friends. The interview took place at 9:43pm on December 4, 2005. The relationship, as related by the informant, is not the best. Her mom and the informant do not get along that well, but she is still happy to have the family connection. The informant actually mentions that she is very close to her grandmother and great grandmother in the chapter. In this example, we see a new dimension; the relationship may not be all about the mother/daughter relationship, but can and does extend to “grandmothers” and “great grandmothers.”