The Sky Is Gray | The Implications of a Moral Reading of The Sky is Gray
In the following essay, Kippen
explores the implications of a moral reading of
Gaines’s ‘‘The Sky is Gray.’’
Though Gaines’s works invite a wide number of readings, almost all current criticism can be divided into one of two broad categories: race-centered criticism, concerned primarily with the story’s instructive value about such things as prejudice and injustice, and structural criticism, which describes the parts of the story and their relation to the whole in formal, rather than thematic, terms. Not surprisingly, the lion’s share of critiques fall into the first camp, and even the structural readings include didactic (instructive) digressions in almost every case. Such readings all...
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