In the novel, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, instances of racial tensions and the feeling of inferiority occur internally within Esch, causing her to feel unseen. In the grocery store scene on page 28, Esch compares herself to “Eurydice walking through the underworld to dissolve, unseen.” This passage highlights that Esch not only feels invisible to the man that got her pregnant, Manny, but she feels unseen to the white race. The reason she hints that she feels this way towards her race is because she portrays herself as, “small, dark: invisible” (28). Esch ultimately evokes this inferior mindset due to her race, causing her to feel translucent to white people she encounters. Another instant where Esch suggests she is imperceptible is
