She wants her conception to not be immaculate, as seen later on in the short story. As I contended earlier in the paper, Esther rejects her maternal and economic roles even as she works them. “Keeping the money in the family,” is slowly causing her to disappear into the “color of the gray dust that dances with dead cotton leaves,” (27). Esther must meet Barlo to avoid falling into the traditional roles of a female of the modern period and not creating difference. Modernity’s ideal for black people to own and have finance is troubled in her
She wants her conception to not be immaculate, as seen later on in the short story. As I contended earlier in the paper, Esther rejects her maternal and economic roles even as she works them. “Keeping the money in the family,” is slowly causing her to disappear into the “color of the gray dust that dances with dead cotton leaves,” (27). Esther must meet Barlo to avoid falling into the traditional roles of a female of the modern period and not creating difference. Modernity’s ideal for black people to own and have finance is troubled in her