Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Bookanista OP t1_je0wvqx wrote

Reply to comment by Shadow_Lass38 in This one by LM Montgomery did not age well by Bookanista

One weird thing was that I can’t quite figure out how old the >!murderous!< Italian boy is supposed to be. He’s unambiguously called “boy” but he’s described almost physically like an adult.

3

Shadow_Lass38 t1_je0y1z1 wrote

African American men were not the only minorities to be referred to by the demeaning "boy": there were Asian "houseboys," for example, who could be in their 50s or 60s and older than their employers.

2

Bookanista OP t1_je0ymey wrote

Good point. I was having a hard time understanding how sexily (???) he’s described with other words she calls him.

3