In this short story, James explores the lifestyle as purely based on the race and the resource difference between the races in the US. In this short story, he shows how the old-fashioned attitudes about races developed challenging them simultaneously. This is observed by his strong emphasis on the characters nature as he introduced them. He emphasizes that Gweneth was from South Carolina a section of Brooklyn where he was sent by her parents to live with the Uncle Richard Lawson. According to McPherson, in Brooklyn, the prevailing conditions would probably not allow her to learn the folktales in South Carolina and so probably that was the reason she was sent there to live with the uncle (6). The differences in the race and the lifestyle were so significant that mothers would advise their children that if they behaved and attended the church they would go to New York. Mrs. Boswell  was both tough and humorous would occasionally say “Now you little brown bunnies,” she might say, “and you black buck rabbits and you few cottontails mixed in, some of you starting to smell yourselves under the arms without knowing what it’s all about.”(McPherson 8) The emphasis made on the race is a clear depiction that the race is of great significance in relating individual actions most probably to the regions they occupy.

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