Summary Of Be Angry And Do Not Sin By Rachel Harmon

Unlike Serena, Rachel Harmon wins the battle by being the symbol of the constructive kind of anger through simplicity and motherhood. Overcoming Hurts and Anger examines verses of the Bible which can represent Rachel’s behavior as they “condone anger. Perhaps the most striking verses to this effect are Psalm 4:4, which reads, ‘Be angry, and do not sin’ and Ephesians 4:26: ‘Be angry, yet do not sin’” (Carlson 19). From the moment her father, Abe Harmon, has been killed by Pemberton, she has never thought of avenging him except once when Serena, in a humiliating way, has given her “the bowie knife” which has killed her father as an indemnification for her father’s death (10). “Don’t think a thing that terrible,” using such interior monologue