How Does Toni Morrison Use Direct Characterization In Recitatif

“So for that moment it didn’t matter that we looked like salt and pepper standing there” (Morrison 132). A Character can be more than just words on a page. In this short story, the two main characters Twyla and Roberta are put into an orphanage where they meet. Toni Morrison the author of this short story “Recitatif” never directly tells the readers which character is black and which one is white. Morrison encourages people to look deeper into the characters by using indirect characterization.
First, Morrison doesn’t directly tell us the race of Twyla and Roberta. She hints at the fact that one is black and the other is white with the quote in the first paragraph of this essay. Morrison does this because she thinks people shouldn’t be defined