Directions: Address/answer questions 3 and 4 on page 458 of your textbook.
What does the grandmother's use of the words pickaninny and nigger reveal about her? How are readers expected to reconcile this language with her very proper appearance and her preoccupation with manners? How does her use of those words affect your reaction to her?
Explain the irony in this statement: "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady" (par. 12).
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