1. For years, throughout different stages of the unnamed male narrator’s life, he remains in love of Avey, which is also the title of one of Toomer’s short story in Cane. Avey neglects him because she is only interested in wealthy men. She has no interest in furthering her education all because of her “downright laziness (Toomer 61), and, in fact, she has no other aspiration other than to squeeze each penny from her men’s pocket. After the narrator moves to college, he “decides to forget her” (61), which seemed to initially have worked, “For two years I thought I did” (61). However, he falls for her once again and even follows her to New York. The ending of the story, though, the reader learns that his love; his passion dies: “My passion died”
