“Passing” was a story about a race that was there physical appearance to pass off another race. The story talks about two light skinned African American women, Irene and Clare, trying to pass off as white people. The story starts off by Irene receiving a letter form Clare, a friend of hers that she wants no part of. From here the story goes into a flashback to Irene’s summer vacation, when she run into Clare in the Dayton, in Chicago. They are both in an all white restaurant, which they got in due to their light skinned color. After this interaction between the two long lost friends, Irene came to the conclusion that she want’s nothing to do with Clare and her way of living. Now back to when Irene gets the letter, which basically said that
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Some of the African Americans had a choice, only if they were light skinned, and could pass off as a white person. The few people that could do this had to choose if they wanted to carry this out or not. They knew the risk if they got caught, they would be potentially dead. Passing is when an African American can pass for a white person, and has all the same rights as a white person. They can go and do everything as a white person. However, some parts of the African American society did not like the idea of passing. They saw this as an easy way out for some of the people in the society but this did not help the whole race. This also meant that only some of the people in the society would get equity rights but others would still have to suffer. Another way the that society of the time looked at passing was that in the long run it will help them, because the parent that did this could get there kids into better schools if there are able to pass as white kids. So this was not an all-bad concept that some African American used. There were three characters in passing that had different views on this subject. Irene was against the use of passing, as a way to get thing that she wanted. Even though we can concluded that she used the system in the being to get in the restaurant, but she does not used the system to the extant of Clare and Gertrude. Irene did not want to lose the connection with
Some of the African Americans had a choice, only if they were light skinned, and could pass off as a white person. The few people that could do this had to choose if they wanted to carry this out or not. They knew the risk if they got caught, they would be potentially dead. Passing is when an African American can pass for a white person, and has all the same rights as a white person. They can go and do everything as a white person. However, some parts of the African American society did not like the idea of passing. They saw this as an easy way out for some of the people in the society but this did not help the whole race. This also meant that only some of the people in the society would get equity rights but others would still have to suffer. Another way the that society of the time looked at passing was that in the long run it will help them, because the parent that did this could get there kids into better schools if there are able to pass as white kids. So this was not an all-bad concept that some African American used. There were three characters in passing that had different views on this subject. Irene was against the use of passing, as a way to get thing that she wanted. Even though we can concluded that she used the system in the being to get in the restaurant, but she does not used the system to the extant of Clare and Gertrude. Irene did not want to lose the connection with