Gólgota is presented not as a setting for a narrated visit but as the emblematic place where motherhood is made to mean suffering. The Narrator evokes it beneath the cross, joining maternal grief to a religious image of pain and sacrifice; later, the name returns among the images that await her when she turns back to her unfinished writing.

Maternal Suffering as Destiny

Gólgota gives spatial form to a prescribed maternal role. The passage rejects the idea that a mother’s life should include such activities as reading poetry or eating with strangers, and instead declares that a mother must suffer: she must kneel beneath the cross and weep without consolation. The place becomes the culmination of that demand, where the Mater Dolorosa figure embodies suffering as motherhood’s supposed destiny.

Return in the Manuscript

The Narrator later imagines Gólgota waiting for her among the living and the dead, alongside the wound of a woman who has just given birth and the green plastic bath. These images belong to the pages she has postponed reading, and their return makes the place part of her encounter with the material she has been writing. Gólgota thus gathers the book’s religious image of maternal suffering into a broader reckoning with the consequences and burden of representing mothers who harm children.