Constantine's Son Relationship Analysis

Moreover, what this relationship illustrates for the wider discussion of this paper is that the creation of the black identity and the division in society is one that is not an accurate reality. For instance, when there is a 'loving' relationship, it is not acknowledged outside the household. Moreover, this relationship in the novel does attempt to blur the racial division by creating a 'third place' in society in where an African American maid can be viewed as the white's equal. Nevertheless, the constraints of the contradicting messages that people receive from society and their own feelings, creates an impediment in the establishment of the African American voice and equality. Falling Outside Society's norm As Stockett includes both sides of society's division in the master-servant relationship and highlights the difficulty for white people to deal with this relationship in terms of …show more content…
Stockett uses this hypocrisy to highlight the contradicting nature of Mississippi's society and how these people are marginalised. This is due to their annihilation of society as they do not fit in with the correspondent constructed 'black identity' and due to society's denial of multiracialism. If they would accept that people who are part white should have a voice, they would need to change the existing hierarchy in place and reconstruct society's view on two groups' identity. Moreover, the one-drop rule further stresses that the limits of voice are due to society's structure and how it uses race as an excuse to limit people from a voice and change of class in society. In other words, Constantine's daughter is more white than African American, yet her voice in the South would still be limited to the same degree as the rest of the African American community in order for the 'Us' to remain in