- Irene
- Feels humalited by Clare
- Felt as if she couldn't betray Clare
- Felt for the race, her race
- Has warm olive skin
- Quick to anger
- not one to cry
- Clare
- Annoying
- Bitter
- Doesn't care for other's suffering
- wanted her cake and wanted to eat it as well, but also wanted to eat other peoples cake as well
- Clare didn't care for the race just herself
- Margery, Clare's daughter only child
- went to school in switzerland
- wanted to be on the black side agian
- Discovered that some colored men where supieor to white men
- Got along well with Ted and Junior
- Had a thing for Brian
- Do anything to get what she want's doesn't care
- Brian
- Still had the power to disconcert Irene after years together
- Was of a darker complexion
- Has an amusing smile, faintest bit supercilious
- Extremely good looking
- Deep Cooper colored skin
- Wanted to go to Brazil
- Hates sick people, but is a Doctor
- Have had affairs in the past
- Had a thing for Clare
- Ted
- Deceptively gracious
- speculative and withdrawn
- was more like his father
- Junior
- Going to fast in school for Irene
- Not eleven yet
- Junior seems like Brian's favorite
- Serious
- Positive
- Tall for his age
- like is father in features and color
- had a temper like Irene
- Hugh Wentworth
- a white man that went to a black dance
- an author
- married to Bianca
Identify symbols or traditions--rituals.
- Race
- Skin
- N.W.L. Dance (negro welfare league)
- White people coming to black affairs
Identify words or phrases that have a special meaning.
- Sheba
Discuss how the characters respond to their communities and/or change in their environment. What is the main character's flaw?
- Clare, not being content with the life that she ideally choose for herself.
- Irene be conflicted with passing.not standing up to Brian when she feels there is a problem, putting up with Brian's cheating.
Identify the setting - country, tribe, city, state, time period.
- New York, Harlem 1920's
Bring a question.
- Why does Clare want so bad to be with Negros if she has a "good life" passing, if passing is something that she wanted to do?
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