Problem
a) The story opens with Amy in a dressmaker's shop trying on a new and expensive gown. What does the story's fascination with costume suggest about Amy's racial identity?
b) How does Fauset's treatment of Amy's "awakening" compare to the presentation of race in the work of Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston?
c) Compare and contrast Amy's relationships with other women in the story