When faced with the obstacle of trying to find ones self in a deteriorating world filled with racial Inequality based on skin color patriarchal control and female sexual repression in the pursuit of happiness individuality gets distorted and sexual indeciviness erupts causing a multitude of questioning about ones own identity in relation to the rest of the world Therefore in the collection The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen the main characters Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry in Passing are fo
English literature has always been known to have a controversial side to everything Many novels and other pieces of literature keep the reader in bewilderment about what is really happening and what the narrator is just imagining Nella Larsens Passing is the story about two middle class African Americans who can both pass as white women because of their light complexion As the novel progresses Irenes attraction to Clare starts to affect both their lives and Irene begins imagining things and sta