Marrow By Chesnutt Summary

Who is the real culprit: The white community or the African Americans?

Chesnutt explicitly spends considerable time addressing the division of people of Wellington into sociological types, which according to the high class Americans is absolutely just as they say, that Africans Americans should be overpowered since all the crimes are done by Africans Americans as a consequence of which they should be prohibited from all the rights, whereas I say, that since the Africans Americans are kept away from all their rights, they are left with no choice, but sometimes to indulge in such wrong activities to satisfy their own wishes. After the sustained reading of Chesnutt’s psychological novel Marrow, it is clear that the Africans Americans so called
Had the Africans Americans been treated in an equal way without any distinction based on race, they would never have done these things. Moreover, even though they were deprived of all their happiness, there are plenty of times when it was proved in Wellington that the Africans Americans were always more generous and true to their inner conscience. Why the whites were not even once guilt of the obscenity they indulged in various times? Hence, the entire argument circles around the fact that if the high-class white Americans anticipate the Africans Americans to admire them unfailingly, white Americans should first honor the Africans Americans by giving them all the rights they deserve
Dr. Miller is a character in the novel that is an excellent example of this. During the time of lynching, Dr. Miller’s child was killed, and the irony was that Major Carteret’s child was in an urgent need of treatment and Dr. Miller was only the doctor available at that moment. Despite Janet and Dr. Miller was always derogated from their rights and their own child was killed during the riot which they knew was to some extent because of Major Carteret, they still agreed to help Olivia and Major Carteret and to treat their child which in itself is an act to be saluted. After this incident who says that the African Americans are criminals? In Larsen’s dramatic novel, we see how Irene (an African American) always had a clean intention to always help others. Her main dream was to protect her family from any harm and to be in great domestic ties. Whereas, Clare (also an African American) who after passing lived with the upper class, was not at all concerned about her own daughter. Larsen shows a great sense of binary opposition between Clare and Irene: one of them is just concerned about herself and the other is completely devoted to her family. Again, we see a group of