How Jack Bellews Speech Affects the Plot of Nella Larsens Passing

The term passing is shorthand for a racial passing which means lot of peerless race passing for another. Nella Larsens discharge is the bosh about two light-skinned women, who both have African blood. Clare Kendry is one of them who chooses and succeeds at passing and Irene Redfield is one who doesnt. They drive into each other twelve years later in a restaurant and Clare invites Irene to the tea party. The tea party which appears in the beginning of the story plays an important role throughout of the story because Jack Bellew enters the story at that moment. Jack is the white man who has a strong revulsion to African-Americans. He marries Clare, without penetrating her secret ancestry. Jacks statements at the tea party lead the main characters transformation throughout the story and shape the destruction as well. Jacks disgust in dark people and assertion of his hate toward Negroes impact Clare Kendry, his wife, to re-estimate her value of life. When Clare and Irene run into each other at the restaurant, Clare is confident of her passing and is even sorry to those who didnt do the same thing. Passing to the white society is even worth the price to Clare (160). She believes that wealth is everybodys final desire and by passing she achieves that in a frightfully easy appearance (158). However she doubts her confidence on her passed life since the tea party in her house. At the tea party, Jack says words which humiliates African-Americans and shows how he hates Negroes (171-172). Against his statements, Irene exposes that Jack is surrounded by three black devils (172). It is significant that Irene includes Clare as one of the black devils. This implies that Irene classifies Clare as a part of the black community even... ...at Jack didnt show up oft during the story but his words which had spoken at the tea party remain and continuously affect Irene and Clare. After the tea party Clare finds her happiness is no longer coming from being an upper class and having wealth but she confirms that she belongs to the black society and is happy to mingle with them. Also Irene who always concerning safety and impersonate it up as the most important thing in her life turns out to thinking about others beside security those are considering herself and relationship with husband . Clares death, the ending of the story, was already foreseen at the tea party by Jack and followed by his words. Without doubt Jack Bellew was the character who opens up the story and also, finishes up the story. Work citedNella, Larsen. Quicksand and Passing. bran-new Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University press, 2002