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This is a 5 page paper which argues that the main theme in Nella Larsen's "Passing" is racism and its impact.
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concern primarily with racial identity, to issues of jealousy, to even issues of homosexuality. When the novel was originally penned in 1929, all three issues were not discussed openly
in polite company. Through the years, each interpretation has gained its own following. INTERPRETATION - CLAUDIA TATE Claudia Tate in her essay, "Nella Larsens Passing: A Problem of Interpretation"
attempts to illustrate that the original novel is not about racism, but rather about the jealousy of one individual for another individual. She attempts to demonstrate that race is
only a minor factor in a jealous scenario between two old childhood friends who has chosen different paths which have resulted in very different lives. Although many critics, including Claudia
Tate, have accused Nella Larsen of using race as a pretext for examining other issues, her second novel, "Passing," is profoundly concerned with racial identity. This particular novel represents an
original and a conventional plot of racial passing. Passing was the practice of a racially mixed individual, a mulatto, to pass as a white person in a segregated world.
"PASSING" - A NOVEL ABOUT RACE Passing seems to stress the anxieties and sexual paranoias that make people who are bound by convention reluctant to allow others the freedom to
travel without restrictions throughout the many worlds, sexualities and identities of all of American society. Larsens novel explores a legally fraudulent inter racial union in the marriage between Clare Kendry
and John Bellew. At the same time, the novel delineates the inter racial sexual attraction of Irene Redfield for Clare. Irene is concerned enough about her desires for
Clare that she projects those taboos desires onto her husband Brian. It seems ironic that Brian Redfield, who is implied to be homosexual by the text, apparently has no
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