Read Nella Larsen's Passing:

link: https://archive.org/stream/passing00lars/passing00...

And then look at these discussion questions below. Choose one of them, include the question so I know what you are responding to, and answer the question fully, quoting from the text for support. This should be at least 2 pages in length. MLA formatted

Questions: (REMEMBER TO PICK ONE)

• Passing is set in the 1920s, before the Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" facilities for nonwhites unconstitutional. What privileges is Irene Redfield denied as a black person? What do men and women gain by passing?
• In Part One, Irene has tea with Gertrude and Clare, her two childhood friends. Compare the attitudes each woman has toward passing. To what degree does each pass for white?
• Passing presents two women, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, who make very different choices yet whose lives intertwine in startling ways. Compare the characters of each. What are each woman’s strengths? Her weaknesses? What are each woman’s attitudes toward race? How do these attitudes influence the novel’s plot?
• Compare different characters’ attitudes toward sexuality. For instance, in what ways are Irene’s and Clare’s thoughts on sex similar? How are they different? How might these attitudes be related to each character’s thoughts on race?
• Passing functions as a metaphor with several layers of meaning. What are they? How do they relate to each other?
• What are the female characters’ perspectives on motherhood?
• What are Irene’s attitudes in terms of race? Are they any different from John Bellew’s?
• What does the following passage mean?: “[Irene] was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. Herself. Her race. Race: The thing that bound and suffocated her. Whatever steps she took, or if she took none at all, something would be crushed. A person or the race. Clare, herself, or the race. Or, it might be all three.”

Do let me know, which question you select