Race

• ARITS: Mr Linder makes the theme of racial discrimination prominent in the plot as an issues they cannot avoid, they respond with defiance and strength.

  The play powerfully demonstrates the way to deal with discrimination is to stand up to it and reassert ones dignity in the face of unchecked racism.
• GG: Fitzgerald shows passive rascim throughout his novella, and active racism through Tom Buchanan's ideas on eugenics.
• GG + ARITS: Both Tom and Walter are emasculated by their ideas of a race outside of theirs gaining power, Walters being intersectional and internalized of black women and tom being a non-white race.

  
  

  ‘if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged’ pg18

  
  

  'the most backward race of people' pg19
• GG + ARITS: both representation of racism (through Tom and Walter) satirise it