What's it Like…On the Other Side "Perhaps she was both, both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death-all the opposites contained and reconciled in her (348)." This quote from Paule Marshall's article "To Da-Duh, In Memoriam" synthesizes one of the recurring themes throughout the story, contrasts. In this article, Marshall retells the story of when she and her New York family go to visit her grandmother, nicknamed Da-Duh, in Barbados. Throughout this trip, Marshall, as a young girl, is constantly confronted with several contrasts. There are two particularly obvious contrasts in the context of the story. These two contrasts a