Talk:Passing (novel)

Recent additions
@User:Zahra293, User:Abiename, User:Jmerius3, User:Kerymi. I appreciate the effort taken in the recent additions to the article, but unfortunately they are not in keeping with the quality of the article. Particularly the new sections ("Character descriptions" and "Quotes") are not recommended by the MoS guidelines concerning Novels; more generally, the content is largely conjecture that is not referenced. Please take the time to consider how the content might be included in the article, possibly by raising concerns/queries here and I can then assist you in this? Many thanks, MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 22:25, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Relocated section: 'Interpretation'
I am relocating this recently-added section 'Interpretation' to here, as the content did not belong in the 'Plot' section of the article, but the author may want to make further refinements before re-inserting into the various 'Themes' sub-sections. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 13:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC) "One thing that is unclear about the story is the ending. This article’s main focus is on the Irene’s psychological view as she tells the story. Claudia Tate describes how Irene’s view is all from an internal view of how she is and the way she acts, while Clare’s view is told through an external view by Irene. She goes on to talk about how this leaves Clare as a mystery but it is obvious Irene envies her beauty and has an emotional effect on her making her feel very mediocre and insecure. These reasons lead Tate to believe that “We do not know whether she [Irene] is simply glad that Clare is permanently out of her life by means of quirk fate, whether she does not regret killing her, or whether she has suffered monetary amnesia and therefore does not know her role in Clare’s death.” Larsen never clearly states how Clare died, instead Irene never allowed herself to remember which leaves the cause of death up in the air. Claudia Tate then continues on about how it would take away from Larsen’s “consummate skill in dramatizing psychological ambiguity.” to assume that Irene had pushed Clare to her death or that she had committed suicide. There are many valid reasons to why she might have committed suicide as well as why Irene might have pushed her out of the window. Tate cannot force herself to decide what actually happened because of the praise she has for Larsen’s ability to center the novel on a dramatic psychological interpretation instead of a tragic story of a light skinned who passed as white fatally dying. (add page number of Tate's criticism"

What exactly is the point of the "Character" section?
Besides the fact that it talks about more than one character (and thus has an awkward title), it doesn't seem to add anything other than more plot summary, and is not written very well to boot. I'd like to delete the whole section but thought I'd ask first. Brightnsalty (talk) 01:23, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi! That was something added by a student I oversaw. I saw that the section has issues, one of which was that it's sorely undersourced, so if you think that it can't be salvaged, please feel free to do whatever you think is best. Offhand a good alternative to this section would be to replace it with a list of the characters in the book with a brief overview of each character. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:19, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

public domain
I can't find a renewal for this book. I searched for the author and the publisher in both the catalogs and card index.

If a renewal did surface this would still be public domain in 2025 as a published work from 1929. SDudley (talk) 00:04, 9 February 2024 (UTC)