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Originally Posted by Catlady
But I think I would have enjoyed the process of reading Passing more if I'd known there was a dead body at the end of it.
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But I'm very glad you made that comment! Until you did, it hadn't occurred to me to consider other meanings for "passing." First, I realized that the title could also refer to the death at the end; a cosmic pun even, as passing led to passing. Then, more ominously, it can also imply that passing (as a white person) represents the passing (death) of one's essential self. I had never connected the two; I thought of "passing" as being a fairly straightforward term.