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* AffablyEvil: Clare's husband John is genuinely charming and friendly. He's also an open bigot.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Clare's husband John is genuinely charming and friendly. He's also an open bigot.
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* PsychoLesbian: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pops up when reading into the subtext.]] The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene possibly murders Clare while still attracted to her.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: There's a good amount of sexual tension between Irene and Clare, but since nothing actually happens between them it's never made clear if either party actually feels any sexual attraction to each other.
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The main character of the story is Irene Redfield, a lady prominently ensconded in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s. Her charmed existance, however, is shaken up by a chance encounter with Clare Kendry, a childhood friend that has been "passing for white" and hiding her true Negro identity from everyone, including her racist husband. Clare's actions provoke both ladies to confront the hazards of public and private deception.
It was made into a film in 2020, premiering at Sundance 2021, where it was the directorial debut of Creator/RebeccaHall and starred Creator/RuthNegga as Clare, Creator/TessaThompson as Irene, Creator/AndreHolland as Irene's husband Brian, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard as Clare's husband John, and Creator/BillCamp as Hugo.
It was made into a film in 2020, premiering at Sundance 2021, where it was the directorial debut of Creator/RebeccaHall and starred Creator/RuthNegga as Clare, Creator/TessaThompson as Irene, Creator/AndreHolland as Irene's husband Brian, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard as Clare's husband John, and Creator/BillCamp as Hugo.
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The main character of the story is Irene Redfield, a lady prominently ensconded ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s. Her charmed existance, existence, however, is shaken up by a chance encounter with Clare Kendry, a childhood friend that has been "passing for white" and hiding her true Negro identity from everyone, including her racist husband. Clare's actions provoke both ladies to confront the hazards of public and private deception.
It was made into a film in 2020, premiering at Sundance 2021, where it was the directorial debut of Creator/RebeccaHall and starred Creator/RuthNegga as Clare, Creator/TessaThompson as Irene, Creator/AndreHolland as Irene's husband Brian, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard as Clare's husband John, and Creator/BillCamp asHugo.Hugh.
It was made into a film in 2020, premiering at Sundance 2021, where it was the directorial debut of Creator/RebeccaHall and starred Creator/RuthNegga as Clare, Creator/TessaThompson as Irene, Creator/AndreHolland as Irene's husband Brian, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard as Clare's husband John, and Creator/BillCamp as
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Clare [[spoiler: falling to her death was her own doing or if it was Irene or John pushing her.]]
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** Did Brian and Clare really have an affair, or was it all in Irene's head? It's never confirmed.
** It's not clear if Clare [[spoiler: falling to her death was her own doing or if it was Irene or John pushingher.her. This is averted in the film, where she explicitly pushes her and grapples with the aftermath.]]
* AttentionWhore: Brian posits that Hugh doesn't like Clare because she takes attention away from himself.
* BettyAndVeronica: In their youth, Irene was the bookish and dependable one, while Clare was spirited and ambitious. In the present day, this comes to a head when Irene worries that her husband is drawn to Clare's vivacious nature and is pulling away from her.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Both appropriate for the time period and a play at the "black and white" themes of the material.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Irene pushes Clare to her death (ambiguous in the book, explicitly in the film) and has an emotional breakdown. TheEnd. ]]
** Did Brian and Clare really have an affair, or was it all in Irene's head? It's never confirmed.
** It's not clear if Clare [[spoiler: falling to her death was her own doing or if it was Irene or John pushing
* AttentionWhore: Brian posits that Hugh doesn't like Clare because she takes attention away from himself.
* BettyAndVeronica: In their youth, Irene was the bookish and dependable one, while Clare was spirited and ambitious. In the present day, this comes to a head when Irene worries that her husband is drawn to Clare's vivacious nature and is pulling away from her.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Both appropriate for the time period and a play at the "black and white" themes of the material.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Irene pushes Clare to her death (ambiguous in the book, explicitly in the film) and has an emotional breakdown. TheEnd. ]]
* GildedCage: Clare is married to a wealthy man, stays at fancy hotels, and can send her daughter to a European boarding school, but secretly hates her life and loathes having to repress her identity.
* InnocentBigot: Hugh has a tendency to view race relations like he's in a newspaper article, as Irene points out.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Clare openly states that she's willing to hurt other people to get what she wants.
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler:Irene when she encounters John in public while not "passing," knowing that he'll realize that there must be something Clare isn't telling him.]]
** When Clare breezily tells Irene that she would just return to Harlem permanently if John divorced her, Irene realizes that she'll ''never'' get rid of her.
* InnocentBigot: Hugh has a tendency to view race relations like he's in a newspaper article, as Irene points out.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Clare openly states that she's willing to hurt other people to get what she wants.
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler:Irene when she encounters John in public while not "passing," knowing that he'll realize that there must be something Clare isn't telling him.]]
** When Clare breezily tells Irene that she would just return to Harlem permanently if John divorced her, Irene realizes that she'll ''never'' get rid of her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: John openly despises black people and isn't afraid to rail against them in front of his wife and her friend -- both of whom are passing during the encounter. As if that's not enough, his nickname for Clare is a racial epithet and he outright admits that despite many years of marriage, he wouldn't accept if Clare had any black heritage at all.
* PsychoLesbian: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pops up when reading into the subtext.]] The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene possibly murders Clare while still attracted to her.]]]]
* SanitySlippage: Irene begins to lose it as she becomes more and more paranoid that Brian and Clare are having an affair.
* PsychoLesbian: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pops up when reading into the subtext.]] The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene possibly murders Clare while still attracted to her.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Clare [[spoiler: falling to her death was her own doing or if it was Irene orBrian John pushing her.]]]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Clare's husband John is genuinely charming and friendly. He's also an open bigot.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Clare [[spoiler: falling to her death was her own doing or if it was Irene or
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It was made into a film in 2020, premiering at Sundance 2021, where it was the directorial debut of Creator/RebeccaHall and starred Creator/RuthNegga as Clare, Creator/TessaThompson as Irene, Creator/AndreHolland as Irene's husband Brian, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard as Clare's husband John, and Creator/BillCamp as Hugo.
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* PsychoLesbian: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pops up when reading into the subtext.]] The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene possibly murders Clare while still attracted to her.]]
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The story was somewhat ambiguous regarding Clare and Irene\'s relationship, and was extremely ambiguous in the ending.
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->"It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it."
--> Irene Redfield
''Passing'' is Nella Larsen's second novel, written in 1929.
The main character of the story is Irene Redfield, a lady prominently ensconded in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s. Her charmed existance, however, is shaken up by a chance encounter with Clare Kendry, a childhood friend that has been "passing for white" and hiding her true Negro identity from everyone, including her racist husband. Clare's actions provoke both ladies to confront the hazards of public and private deception.
!!This work features the following tropes:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The very first actions taken by Irene in the novel is to examine an envelope that's seemingly out of place and alien when compared to the rest of the mail, and was sent by a woman that (in her opinion) is always stepping on the edge of danger.
* PassFail: The novel is entirely about examining this phenomenon - it contains three "black" women, one who has basically switched to a white identity by continuously passing (Claire), one that can pass, but doesn't (Irene),and one who passes occasionally out of convenience (Gertrude). [[spoiler:It does not work out well for the first two in the end.]]
* PsychoLesbian: In the subtext. The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene eventually murders Clare while still attracted to her.]]
--> Irene Redfield
''Passing'' is Nella Larsen's second novel, written in 1929.
The main character of the story is Irene Redfield, a lady prominently ensconded in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s. Her charmed existance, however, is shaken up by a chance encounter with Clare Kendry, a childhood friend that has been "passing for white" and hiding her true Negro identity from everyone, including her racist husband. Clare's actions provoke both ladies to confront the hazards of public and private deception.
!!This work features the following tropes:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The very first actions taken by Irene in the novel is to examine an envelope that's seemingly out of place and alien when compared to the rest of the mail, and was sent by a woman that (in her opinion) is always stepping on the edge of danger.
* PassFail: The novel is entirely about examining this phenomenon - it contains three "black" women, one who has basically switched to a white identity by continuously passing (Claire), one that can pass, but doesn't (Irene),and one who passes occasionally out of convenience (Gertrude). [[spoiler:It does not work out well for the first two in the end.]]
* PsychoLesbian: In the subtext. The egotistical, needy, manipulative Clare, a practiced seducer, uses her beauty and charm to fascinate Irene before setting out to take over Irene's life and husband. [[spoiler:Irene eventually murders Clare while still attracted to her.]]
