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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
And see how much fun we are all having with it!
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While it's too late for Larsen to learn from what we see here, other writers might look at this and notice that we have spent a disproportionate amount of time discussing the last scene. If the intention of the author was to talk about race and passing then we might see this book as a failure, because the readers' attention has been drawn away from that by the puzzle of the last scene. However, if the intention of the author was to present a character study of Irene and/or Clare then we might judge the book a success, because this final puzzle focuses the reader on the characters: what they meant by everything they said and did, how they would or should have reacted.