The Devil In A Blue Dress Essay
In the 1950s racial and economical differences caused much conflict all over the world. In The Devil in a Blue Dress, Ezekiel Rawlins moves from Texas to LA to search for better opportunities only to find segregation almost as prominent as in plantations back at home. Easy gets mixed up in the dangerous part of LA by a man named DeWitt Albright who Easy initially worked for to pay the mortgage for his house. Easy is then motivated to solve a set of mysteries as the safety of his friends and of a woman named Daphne Monet was at stake. In multiple instances, his differences caused him trouble but more prominently encouraged him to get through the case. Although race and class created prejudice and division throughout The Devil in a Blue Dress,
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It is because of extreme prejudice that the blacks formed an intimate community and separated themselves from the whites. “Not a doubt in my mind. But, you see, I can’t go in those places looking for her because I’m not the right persuasion”(18). This community creates a sense of understanding and, at times, trust with each other as every black faces the same oppression from society. Some blacks then open up more than normal about giving information and that connection was what Easy needed to smoothly obtain information about the mystery. His interaction with Coretta implies that she knows him enough to leak detailed information about one of her closest friends only for 10 dollars, even though she had her doubts initially. In another case when Easy went around the deep and dangerous part of the black neighborhood asking for Frank Green, everyone he asked was suspicious and protective, like they were looking after each other's backs. Ultimately the connection, almost similar to camaraderie, led Frank to personally visit Easy. This event would have been less likely to happen if Easy was white and Frank had to worry about the police or a trap set up to subdue him. It was because Ezekiel Rawlins was black and dared to ask for information in a community valuing secrecy that Frank Green showed no caution in his method of dealing with his
It is because of extreme prejudice that the blacks formed an intimate community and separated themselves from the whites. “Not a doubt in my mind. But, you see, I can’t go in those places looking for her because I’m not the right persuasion”(18). This community creates a sense of understanding and, at times, trust with each other as every black faces the same oppression from society. Some blacks then open up more than normal about giving information and that connection was what Easy needed to smoothly obtain information about the mystery. His interaction with Coretta implies that she knows him enough to leak detailed information about one of her closest friends only for 10 dollars, even though she had her doubts initially. In another case when Easy went around the deep and dangerous part of the black neighborhood asking for Frank Green, everyone he asked was suspicious and protective, like they were looking after each other's backs. Ultimately the connection, almost similar to camaraderie, led Frank to personally visit Easy. This event would have been less likely to happen if Easy was white and Frank had to worry about the police or a trap set up to subdue him. It was because Ezekiel Rawlins was black and dared to ask for information in a community valuing secrecy that Frank Green showed no caution in his method of dealing with his