Schulyer emphasized that surrendering to one's uniqueness can be discouraging because one's goal will not be achieved. The black experience goes beyond segregation; Additionally, the black experience encompasses all aspects of life, whether it is music or cooking styles, African Americans have contributed to the social process. Larsen and Schulyer placed characters Max Disher and Clare Kendry in a compromising position. Max transformed himself to achieve economic mobility; while Clare married a white man for the same accessibility, but each character had an emptiness within them. “Race! The thing that bound her and stifled her” (Larsen 78). Clare missed being with her race, so she would use Irene to re-enter a culture she had hidden for years. Even at Clare, she did not was not allowed to be herself for safety reasons. Larsen introduces racial blindness as a factor when Jack refers to his wife's skin tone "When we first got married, she was white as hell. a lily. But I declare that it is getting darker and darker” (29), the husband's perception was obscured by his first interaction however, he did not consider the term or hypo; -descent; which means that a drop of black blood makes you black. Looking through the text, racial blindness is mentioned as an opposition to the black race based on color and.