Chapters 25-36 Summary

In Chapter 25, Cynara attends a private ceremony in the family cemetery for her mother. Other has ordered Mammy buried beside Lady, but Cynara and the other former slaves know that Mammy is really being buried beside Planter because the graves were switch in secret for this exact reason. Afterward, Garlic tells Cynara how he drugged his first owner in order to allow Planter to win him in a card game and later did the same thing so that Planter could win the land Cotton Farm sits on. The design of the house was all Garlic's idea. Garlic even arranged for Planter to meet and marry Lady so that Mammy might come to live on Cotton Farm and help Garlic run it.

Another ceremony is held in the cemetery for Mammy for Other and the others to attend. Dreamy Gentleman, Ashley Wilkes...