Now more people have show up to take advantage of Ramatoulaye's hospitality with them they bring forth the destruction of the house and gifts of banknotes not what was customary. In the following chapter the ceremony continues to the third day. This bothers Ramatoulaye due to Ramatoulaye was with Madou fore thirty years of her life when Benetou was only married to him for five despite this they give an equal level of consolation to both of them make them seem like equals. Ramatoulaye dose this with Benetou and it is at this time Madou's sisters give their consolation to both Ramatoulaye and Benetou. When the guests arrive at the home of the recently passed it is the wife duty to receive them. They use the dark wrappers to dress the body in accordance with western African custom. They help by bringing incense white muslin holy water and dark wrappers. She also describe the traditions and steps in which the recently passed body goes through before its final resting place such as the women who are at this funereal have to help with preparations. In the second chapter Ramatoulaye describes the day after where much like western American culture groups of mourners appear at the house of the recently passed to pay their respects. With this she informs Aissatou of her husband Modou who died of a heart attack and how Aissatou ex husband despite his best effort could not save Ramatoulaye's husband. Besides that she latter explains her cause of trouble by saying 'yesterday you were divorced and today I am widow' (Mariama Ba so long a letter 1). Ramatoulaye share details to the reader about recalling her childhood memories of her and her friend Aissatou practiced in childhood a tradition where the two of them buried their baby teeth in the same hole and begged to their fairy god mothers to rerun them more splendid than before. But in the other hand this may also show the level of trust in their friendship has. This by its self seems strange to western American culture because usually diaries are a way to keep our personal thought feeling and opinions certain thing to our self and are never share where in Ramatoulaye case she shares it with others. In the first entry Ramatoulaye addresses her friend Aissatou who live in America say she has received her letter and has decided to write back to her in a form of a diary in she will write about her life and eventually send to her as a form of response. Through Ramatoulaye ordeal Mariama ba shows the ways on which culture and traditions are practice in West Africa and there affects on Senegalese women. In the novel so long a letter by Mariana Ba Ramatoulaye a woman in Daka Sengal begins a diary with the intention to send to her friend Aissatou who live in America, what recently brought on her behavior was the death of he late husband Madou who had just recently made the abrupt decision to take a second wife and marry Benito.

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