Sister uses the word “nigger” several times in the story, and she is clearlya racist. What does her attitude toward African Americans tell you about the time and place of the story?
What will be an ideal response?
- The epithet is used not in the heat of anger or with the intention of wounding or provoking, but rather as a casual descriptive which for this speaker is the customary term of reference for African Americans, just one detail in a culture of pervasive, instinctive, and unexamined racism. Though its use in this way is hardly confined to the American South in the pre-Civil Rights era, it does strongly suggest that that place and time are the setting of the story, as is indeed the case.
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