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4. Analyze Joey's character and how she differs from the others. …show more content…

It doesn’t really bother her that she is white and the man that she is in love with is black. Joey grew up in their household that has so much respect regardless of your skin color. Joey perceived other colored people as equal as white people. For example, Joey told Tillie you are as black as John, How can it be right for me to love you and it’s wrong for me to love him? Joey has enough courage to speak her mind and states exactly how she feels about John. Joey is a happy woman and never looks her interracial relationship as a conflict at all. You love whom you love and there’s nothing wrong with

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