Comparing Plum Bun And Nella Larsen's Passing

Jessica Fauset’s Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral and Nella Larsen’s Passing share many similarities that revolves around African-American women passing as white. In Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral, the main character, Angela Murray decides to deny her own race to enter the upper-class white world. Likewise, the character, Clare Kendry in Passing uses her charm and ivory-colored skin to pass for white and she also leaves behind her own race to join the white world. Angela and Clare comes from a poor but respectable home but they are both dissatisfied about where they live, which results in them accepting another race as their own. In the two stories, Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessica Fauset and Passing by Nella Larsen readers can see that these two selfish women, Angela and Clare decides to pass for white which results in a loss of self, loss of family, and loss of community. Angela and Clare passes for white which causes them lose their identity in society. In the first charter of Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral,
In the first chapter of Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral, readers get a glimpse of Angela’s intentions behind passing for white. She does not want to pass for fun like her mother. She wants to make passing her way of life. In Passing, the character, Clare shares the same intentions of passing as Angela. In chapter two of Passing, Angela makes passing for white her way of life. She denies her own race to enter the upper-class white world. In these two stories, readers can effectively see how African-Americans who could pass for white would deny their own race to do so. The authors of these two stories seem to have the same goal in common which is to persuade African-Americans to recognize their own beauty, values, and racial