I read the part were Ruth tells Milkman her version of the story of her sucking her dead father's fingers, who has it right, Ruth or Macon Dead?? Judging by what she did with Milkman, breast-feed him even though he was too old for that, and that part where it talks about Ruth's unappropiate excitement when her father kissed her good-night, I think Ruth is perverted, that she did have a sexual relationship with her father. It seems to me that she is the kind of woman that needs a man in her life to give like a purpose or meaning to her life, I think so because she mentioned something like that when she was on her way to see Hagar to talk her out of killing Milkman. So she needs a man, and when she has one she like cares about only that man, like obsessed to the point that it turns into something like a perverted kind of love.......maybe.....what do you guys think???