Passing By

museum. I see a lot of same artworks that I saw them when I came first time, but this time I feel I know more about the artworks now. I knew each of the artworks have different theme, subject and meaning. This is oil on canvas painting called Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas made by artist Albert Bierstadt during 1870. This panting’s color schemes is polychromatic. It contains different hues such as green, yellow, and blue. Those hues that used on the painting are cool. Also there are…

In Passing, Nella Larsen’s characters’ Clare and Irene struggle to disentangle themselves from their self inflicted crises and conflate their ontological as well as cultural identities. Larsen employs Clare Kendry to personify the consequences of disconnecting from one's true sense of self. Larsen utilizes the age old cautionary tale to confirm that extricating oneself from predetermined conventional roles in society engenders major conflict, which possesses the potential for catastrophic…

Passing. What is Passing? Passing is defined as when a person classified of a racial group is accepted into another different racial group. Nella Larsen’s novel “Passing” touches on this action between two of the characters Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield. Clare passes as a Caucasian woman and is married to a man John Bellew, a racist and inconsiderate man. John does not know of Clare’s true linage and this becomes apparent when he meets Irene. He speaks ill of African Americans in her presences…

Within the novel Passing by Nella Larson, the author reveals what it is to pass, in chapter two of Passing, Irene has agreed to go to a tea party at Clare’s home where she meets Gertrude, but more importantly she meets Jack Bellew, Clare’s husband. In this scene Irene is exposed to the tranny of Jack Bellew and how race ethics has forced Clare into becoming a white woman. Clare’s husband Jack Bellew who calls Clare “nig” on the basis that “when [they] got first married, she was as white as...a…

In the novella, Passing, Nella Larsen portrays the multifaceted struggles an African-American woman must delicately balance in order to survive in society in the 1920’s through the character of Irene Redfield. When Irene and her childhood acquaintance Clare Kendry happen upon each other at a restaurant in Chicago, they are both “passing” for white women. It quickly becomes clear that Clare has been living as a white woman, while Irene utilizes her ability to pass exclusively when she needs to -…

the gender. In her theory, gender is not something that exists by itself but only exists as a repeated illusion. The same theory of social norms being caused by repeated behavior can not only apply to gender, but race as well. In Nella Larsen’s Passing, two black characters, Irene and Clare are both able to pass as white. However, the ways in which each accepts this racial identity factors…

admit to the unhealthy habit they have developed. In Nella Larsen’s, Passing, Clare Kendry passes as a white person, instead of staying true to her African American roots. Research shows, that those who choose to pass because they think it will be easier than staying true to themselves, end up living a much more difficult, and miserable life, than those who reveal their true identity, no matter what the consequence. In, Passing, Clare Kendry is of African American decent, and she chooses to…

These ideas were shaped by the ideas of racial superiority of the Europeans and the inevitable dying of the Indigenous Australians. This idea of the Aboriginal people dying out was expressed in the works of Daisy Bates’s book, The passing of The Aborigines (1938). These ideas further cemented the policies of protection and the creation of missions and reserves in order to ‘protect’ Indigenous Australians by moving people to reserves and missions where non-Indigenous authorities and…

In Passing, Nella Larsen explores the options the African American women had and the choices they made in 1920s. The novel’s plot delves into the relationship between Irene Redfield, the protagonist, and Clare Kendry, who is, arguably, the novel’s antagonist. Even though race is a major theme in the novel, but a closer reading would conclude that pursing security in marriage and society is what drives every main character in the book. Irene Redfield, a complex biracial character, is…

This excerpt of “Passing” by Nella Larsen outlines the major themes of race, class, gender, and character that we continually talk about in class. Clare Kendry is a woman with Negro blood who partakes in the precarious practice of “passing” as a white woman in public. In this section of the story, Clare visits Irene to inquire why she chose not to respond to Clare’s letter. After a heated argument about safety and consequences, Clare invites herself to the Negro Welfare League’s annual dance…