¨ Oranges are not the only fruit¨

I do not have much knowledge about the old Christian Testament, but I do believe Winterson named every chapter after them because Jeannette grew up in a very religious family. From what I read so far it seems like all Jeanette knows is RELIGION so using the old Testaments helps her explain her story. Humor is strange but funny to me in this novel. Jeanette seems so confused about how her teachers and classmates consider her an outsider. Jeanette´s life is what normal is in her eyes everyone who doesn't live the way she does are odd. What´s interesting is, a person looking in from the outside would think the opposite, Maybe I see it this way because I´m not such a religious person. My guess about the novel being a coming-out story is during Jeanette´s childhood experiences  she only seen life for how it was presented to her and noting more except her fairy tales, so I can imagine when she experiences life for what it is she  becomes open to try new things... or Jeanette was so used to her mother being in control of her family, she may have lost respect for men. Jeanette´s mother is not the worst kind of mother but she definitely has issues she dealing with that's affecting Jeanette's upbringing, her past life has caused her to depend/ rely so much on the church she doesn't realize how much she neglecting everything/one else. I believe if Jeanette's mother was more open minded she would be a descent mom, shes seems to be very informative and some what encouraging, if she used those skills to help raise Jeanette with an open mind... I believe things would be better for the both of them. The church community seems very controlled. Most, if not all the people who follow the church does it faithfully. Their life revolves around the church. The fairy tales may come from Jeanette not knowing much about anything else other than religion, she begins to imagine another life for herself or someone else.

I'm confused about the friendship between Jeanette and Elsie, she is a older women right? Does Jeanette´s mother know how  close the two of them are?