In this short story, Toni Morrison takes on the roll of bringing racial stereotypes to light. Morrison’s goal was to get the readers to understand American Literature and the way that situations can define race as well as the words “black and white”. There are many books that do not explicitly say what the race of the main character is, however, the previous poster made the point that readers assume that the main character is always white. Although I can see how they might have thought that, I disagree. I think if the race is not given, readers will try to see themselves as the main character. When reading this short story, I did not even question which character was which race. But when his was a question that was brought up in class
