fied on her wedding night because Charles attempted some kind of unnatural caresses, and she views alcohol as the devil personified. She is also a racist who believes blacks inferior to whites because she was taught that was the reality from her family. Charles views Raney’s family as uneducated at best and inferior at worst. Raney perceives Charles’ family as a bunch of snobs. However, even though Raney is the product of her family and religion and uneducated compared to Charles, she definitely has a firmly formed, albeit narrow, world view, “Raney has a finely developed view of the world and virtually everything in it. She has opinions, learned mostly from listening to her family talk and reading the Bible, and in the early stages of the novel, and the marriage, there is not one scintilla of ambiguity in her makeup. She understands the world, from her perspective, and rarely has to reflect before making a reply” (Raney A Novel 2).
If Raney’s world view appears limited and narrow-minded, we see early on i
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