Devil In A Blue Dress Character Analysis

Easy Rawlings the main character in Devil in A Blue Dress, is an African American man who has recently returned from serving in World War II. World War II is something of importance to this novel and its main character. Easy was enlisted in the military and served in the war for five years. Easy reacts to some of the situations he gets put in differently because of his participation in the war. Easy also acts differently around white men, because of his participation in the war. Easy never acts afraid of white men and does not see them as superior from himself. Although African Americans served in the war they often we not allowed to fight on the war front. African Americans fought hard for freedoms that their own country denied them, and fought racism on two …show more content…
It is no question that African Americans were treated differently before their participation in the compared to after the war. Fighting in World War II brought about many significant changes for the African American community in America.
Devil in A Blue Dress is a novel written by Walter Mosley and it was published in 1990. The novel takes place in Los Angeles in 1948, just after World War II. It begins with Easy Rawlins, sitting in his friend Joppy’s bar. Easy was just fired from his job at an airplane manufacturing plant. Easy is sitting reading a paper looking for a job. This is when white man who claims he is DeWitt Albright enters and talks to Joppy. Joppy call Easy over and this is when Albright asks Easy to find a white woman whose name is Daphne Monet. Before going into any more detail Albright gives Easy a card with his number on it