Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College English Honors Papers English Department 5-1-2006 Constructing Identity: Race‚ Class‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing Andrew W. Davis Connecticut College‚ andrew.davis@conncoll.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/enghp Recommended Citation Davis‚ Andrew W.‚ "Constructing Identity: Race‚ Class‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing"
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Passing‚ by Nella Larsen‚ Clare attempts to compensate for her guilt by warning Irene about the affair that she is having with Irene’s husband. When Clare ties to warn Irene‚ Clare does it in the most ambiguous way and does not distinctly communicate anything. Clare tries to show Irene her dislike towards settling down with a family. When Irene reminds Clare to “think how glad you’ll be to see [Margery] after all this time‚” Clare states “children aren’t everything.” Clare intends for Irene to realize
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Compare and contrast two poems In this Essay I will compare and contrast Havisham‚ by Carol Ann Duffy and Porphyria’s Lover‚ by Robert Browning. I will explore and analyse the range of poetic devices used to tell a story of love gone wrong. Havisham is spoken by a fictional character based on Charles Dickens’ Miss Havisham. Duffy depicts Havisham as a woman crippled by love and loneliness after being left at the altar. In contrast Browning’s poem sees Porphyria’s Lover murder Porphyria‚ so she
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that love can withstand any barriers that life may hold. In the prologue‚ Clare asks “Why is love intensified by absence?” It is almost like the author planted the seed in the reader’s mind and let it grow throughout the novel by feeding the reader with the experiences and details about Claire and Henry’s life. Henry has been “time traveling” for as long as Clare can remember. As an older man‚ he traveled back in time to Clare when she was a little girl. She grew up waiting for his visits. Later on
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the story are Henry‚ Clare‚ and their daughter Alba. Henry is a time traveler that has no control on what time period or event he might encounter in any given moment (Shmoop Editorial Team). Clare is his wife in the near future who has to wait for him to come at any time and there are times when
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detail about Callum at work. Clare came as promised to look after my flat and water the plants. I was hiding behind my bedroom door. Clare came again on the second day. This time‚ I was hiding under my bed. I did not expect her to explore my bedroom and my closet. I can’t stand looking at her feet trying to fit in my new sacred Jimmy Choo’s. I came out from hiding and started explaining everything to her. Clare was suggested herself to join my hiding holiday. Clare came out with our ‘holiday plan’
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The novel follows Clare’s family’s emigration into the US. Her dark skin mother and sister move back to Jamaica‚ while light-skin Clare and her light-skinned father remain in the US. The move back to their hometown is motivated by their experiences of racism. The negative attitudes of whites towards blacks are instilled and internalized by blacks‚ resulting in Clare’s dark skin mom
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future for Irene? Did she push her or did she just fall? Clare was supposed to be Irene’s best friend. How could she push her? Clare has been passing through and now was spending a lot of time with Irene and Brian. Irene has now started to think that Clare and Brian are together. This hurt Irene her husband with her best friend how could they do that to her. Now she is spending all her time trying to find a way to save her life and family. Clare is having fun keeping her husband from knowing that she
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has him jumping all over the place‚ he take comfort in his wife Clare‚ who shows him love‚ stability‚ and patience even when he is traveling through time. Clare Abshire is another main character in the novel. Though she and Henry didn’t formally meet until she was twenty and he was twenty-eight‚ Henry was very much a part of Clare’s childhood because of her ties to his subconscious later on in his life. The couple first met when Clare was six and Henry forty-three
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John Clare‚ in the Shepherd’s Calendar‚ smoothly connects ideas and images throughout his poetry. The months that Clare speaks of are based on a common theme and enable the reader to fluidly interpret the different stories Clare is writing about. I feel as if Clare is almost writing in a way that resembles a stream of consciousness writing style. This is most apparent when reading his prose writings. The flow of the essay format for Clare seems to be strained and unnatural. His poetry however‚ is
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