The Colored Hands Speech

Personally, I liked the part our discussion today in class when we were trying to analyze what we thought about the colored hands speech on pg. 162 of the novel. But while reading, I interpreted the part differently where Lassiter says "...one that's all-wise an' all-wonderful. That's the hand guiding Jane Withersteen's game of life!"

I fully agreed with the ideas that were bought to light in class today where the red hand of Lassiter's represents the blood on his hands for the violence he's done in the past. I also agreed with Tull's hand being black which represented that he was a bad man with evil on his plate. But the part where he doesn't specify Jane's hand being hers gave me the impression that it could have possibly been a reference to her father. In our previous classes, we discussed how her dad was dead. Since her father is gone and isn't present in the book, I feel like the all-wonderful and all-wise hand guiding her could metaphorically be her father's. His "spirit" or will could be the true thing that's guiding our main character throughout the novel which is why a specific description of Jane's hand is missing; because her father isn't in the picture. But, as proof of class today, there's definitely more than one interpretation so that invisible hand guiding Jane really could be something other than her father's, but that's what I took it as.