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    Summarized & Analyzed "Passing"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Passing"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Passing"
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    Summarized & Analyzed "Passing"

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    “Passing” by Nella Larsen was first published in 1929. It is a social and psychological fiction written very realistically. The story is set primarily in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s.

    The story revolves around the reunion of two childhood friends, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield. It also describes how their fascination with each other’s lives continues to grow with the progression of time.

    The title “Passing” is highly significant in the context of the story, particularly in the case of Clare who tries to pass as white for her husband John ‘Jack’ Bellew.

    Summarized & Analyzed "Passing"
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Irene Redfield
    Clare Kendry
    Brian Redfield
    John Bellew
    Bob Kendry
    Gertrude Martin
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateDec 21, 2016
    ISBN9781370020041
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      Summarized & Analyzed Passing

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Chapter Three: Major Characters

      Chapter Four: Complete Summary

      Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

      Chapter One: Introduction

      Passing by Nella Larsen was first published in 1929. It is a social and psychological fiction written very realistically. The story is set primarily in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s.

      The story revolves around the reunion of two childhood friends, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield. It also describes how their fascination with each other’s lives continues to grow with the progression of time.

      The title Passing is highly significant in the context of the story, particularly in the case of Clare who tries to pass as white for her husband John ‘Jack’ Bellew.

      The author has done a very skillful and careful exploration of race and ethnicity. She has also used her own experiences from her mixed racial heritage and how the practice of racial passing was quite common in the 1920s.

      Most of the reviews were highly positive when the novel was published and the author’s observation of society and race relations was highly admired.

      The book has since been celebrated in modern scholarship for presenting complexity of race, gender, and sexuality. The book soon became the subject of considerable scholarly criticism.

      The book is kind of highly incisive and psychological commentary on race relations in the early decades of the 20th century. It is considered as one of the most important works of fiction by an African-American novelist.

      Clare, the central character, is an African-American woman. She decides to leave her black society and pass as white. The novel is definitely more than merely the story of Clare Kendry; it is a more universal study of psychology and perception.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The story has a third-person narrative, presented through the perspective of Irene Redfield. She happens to be a mixed-race woman. She lives in the Harlem neighbourhood in New York City.

      We are first introduced to the protagonist Irene Redfield. She is a married woman of African-American descent. She is a highly sophisticated woman living her life very comfortably.

      As the story begins, she opens her mail. She receives a letter from an old acquaintance named Clare Kendry. This letter begins a chain of memories. Irene Redfield remembers Clare’s hard childhood and her cunning temperament.

      She then remembers her recent meeting, about two years before, between Clare and herself in Chicago. They had met each other just by chance in Chicago. Clare was a light-complexioned woman. She had explained some of the more sensitive details of her life. She particularly told Irene that she was ‘passing’ as white.

      Before leaving Chicago, Irene had visited Clare in her quarters. Irene met another African-American woman named Gertrude Martin there. She had very fair complexion and she could easily pass as a white woman.

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