... . Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. They are used up, spent, and pathetic. Gloria takes a shot at being in the cinema and fails because she at twenty seven is "too old." In the last pages of the novel, the reader comes to find out that Gloria and Anthony won their ... to build them up as heroes. He tries to justify their beauty in spite of their "damnation." But they are never as "beautiful" as he tries to make them. This is a failure of the novel. Racism is introduced in this nove...

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• Grade Level: High School