... mouth were, "You old enough to buy this son?" I said yes, he followed by saying "You old enough to go to a nigger whore house?" I was taken aback from the statement he had just said and I replied, "I guess." He then followed up by saying "you look old enough to go to a nigger whore house." ... a reader almost cringes in present day hearing, like in the "Geranium" when it says " I say they got 'em a servant next door-a nigger- all dressed up in a Sunday Suit" (The Complete Stories 8). When I first started reading, I thought she was racist but as I write this paper, I have come t...

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