Comparing Passing And Red At The Bone

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As I read the two novels Passing by Nella Larsen and Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, I noticed that the two novels contain extremely similar plots and subplots. Both stories somehow center around two black women from wealthy households having complicated relationships with both the women in their lives (platonically or romantically) and/or their husbands, and navigating how to live with their identities in their respective worlds. The more parallels I drew to the two novels, the more I thought, ‘This is creepy. Everyone in class is talking about how Passing and Gatsby are similar. Nobody is talking about how similar these two are, and it’s insane!’ I started thinking beyond the surface-level events of the books and started thinking about the themes. …show more content…
I started to think, “What’s different between these books?” Which brought me to a difference that I should have pointed out from the get-go. I became interested in the time setting of each of the books - Passing was written and takes place during the 1920s, compared to Red at the Bone, which was written in 2019 and takes place between the late 80s and the early 2000s. The 1920s and the late 2010s are two very different eras based on civic rights. When you learn how Passing touches on issues such as racial perception, it seems like a book ahead of its time. America seems to have more discussions on “white passing” and the like nowadays than in 1920. The difference between the two novels made me decide on my topic. How do both the fictional setting and the real-life happenings at the time of writing Passing and Red At The Bone impact the similar themes that they share? For example, how would the themes in Passing be similar or different if it was written 100 years later, and vice versa for Red at The

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