An Unduly Withered Rose--Analyses of Rena＇s Tragic End

摘要

Since its publication, Charles W·Chesnutt's first novel The House Behind the Cedars has drawn great attention, mostly because of the heroine's tragic end, the issue of passing for white, miscegenation and other race problems involved. It is the oppression from males and the prejudice from the whites that results in the heroine's tragic fate.