“The Goophered Grapevine” “About ten years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, advised a change of climate. I was engaged in grape culture in northern Ohio, and decided to look for a location suitable for carrying on the same business in some Southern State. I wrote to a cousin who had gone into the turpentine business in central North Carolina, and he assured me that no better place could be found in the South than the State and neighborhood in which he lived; climate and soil were all that could be asked for, and land could be bought for a mere song. A cordial invitation to visit him while I looked into the matter was accepted. We found the weather delightful at that season, the end of the summer, and were most hospitably entertained” (Chesnutt 699). "The Goophered Grapevine" is the short story written by African-American novelist, Charles W. Chesnutt. He was a Feyetteville schoolteacher, in 1878. The story was first published in Atlantic Monthly in 1887. "The Goophered Grapevine" is set in North Carolina in two different time periods. Soon after Reconstruction—the moment from 1865 to 1877, when the Southern states were reintegrated into the unification following the …show more content…
Ryder, who also known as the dean of the Blue Veins. He is an African American, but he wants to improve his condition and being resemble to white person. He lived in the society where white people were privileged. I see the idea of realism in the following passage: “The occasion was long memorable among the colored people of the city; not alone the dress and display, but for the high average of intelligence and culture that distinguished the gathering as a whole. There were a number of school-teachers, several young doctors, . . .” (Chesnutt 712). There is some improvement to the better life in the reality for being having people of the different