Essay On Deborah Baldwin

Most, if not all, of Baldwin’s female characters inhibit a certain characteristic that at the time was not socially accepted for the role of a “women”. For example, in Baldwin’s character Deborah we begin to see the conflicts and stigmas that come with rape and the pure women. In the book, Deborah was judged and marginalized as an outsider due to the fact that white men took advantage of her. Baldwin does an exceptional job of explaining to the reader the stigmas that Deborah had to face from society after everyone knew that she had been raped. Baldwin explains that black men were afraid to approach her and believed that she had been choked with the white men’s milk (Baldwin, 121). Baldwin further critiques this notion of the pure women by