The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Ideas for Group Discussion
The Third Life of Grange Copeland demonstrates the stifling effect of an ongoing pattern of racial oppression, while suggesting that this pattern can be broken. The perceived inescapable nature of the pattern lies in the dangerous resignation of Brownfield, a resignation which marred the first two lives of Grange Copeland. Both of these characters, tied by their names (Grange, Brownfield) to the generations of black labor on unproductive ground, lie dead at the end of the work, as neither is able to give up his hatred. Through his legacy, both in terms of experience shared and...
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