Bonnie Crenshaw is Ben Crenshaw's sister. She's wealthy, attractive, eccentric, idealistic, and obsessed with Jimmy. Her campaign to civilize him plays an important role in All to Pieces.
Socially awkward, she had no friends among her peers when growing up. She forced slaves to be her friends--mixing tyranny with pitiableness. Slave owners who had great power over the lives of their slaves sometimes used that power not only to build wealth but also to meet emotional and sexual needs they couldn't fulfill through normal human interactions--a practice doomed to lead to emptiness.
Socially awkward, she had no friends among her peers when growing up. She forced slaves to be her friends--mixing tyranny with pitiableness. Slave owners who had great power over the lives of their slaves sometimes used that power not only to build wealth but also to meet emotional and sexual needs they couldn't fulfill through normal human interactions--a practice doomed to lead to emptiness.