Teddy Farquar, in “No Witchcraft for Sale” by Doris Lessing demonstrates disrespectfulness. To be disrespectful is to be impolite to others. This is a powerful trait to have because it can affect people's lives negatively. Being disrespectful may make a person not have as many friends, and it allows them to be disrespected back by others. In Teddy’s cultural time, there is distinction between white people and people of color. Teddy is a young boy, who lives with his parents on a farm where they have many servants who are of color. One of their servants is Gideon, who Teddy has become close with as a child. When Teddy was young he realized the social distinction between people like him, who are white, and people like Gideon’s son, who is black,
