... American population on the island are not even called by their real names by Sydney and Ondine, simply as "Yardman" or "Mary", no matter how many different people these characters actually were. Willie is actually called "Son" by Sydney, who thinks little of the man the moment he sees him ... don't mix races, they abandon them or pick them"(270). She returns to the island of her family, but as a final inadvertent act to prove her ignorance of self, she refers to the help as "the mulatto" and "Mary" and proceeds to abandon her elderly relatives to return to Paris with a seal-skin coat. Thi...

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