The Understanding Of Lily

The relationship that Lily has with Zach expands her understanding of herself and of society, because it lets clear where a white person stands and where a color person stands. At the beginning of the story we see that a white person has a color lady as the maid and the nanny. The interpretation is set out as the force to conclude that color people were at times still used as servants, yet they were paid. Eventually we meet up with the climax of the story where Rosaleen is set in jail for spitting onto the shoes of three white man. I do agree this was a disruptive thing for Rosaleen to do but there was no real need to do such situation. We also read how these men were allowed into the cell of Rosaleen and beat her up. They were not incarcerated, yet the color women was kept in there. I feel this is very sad and se the idea that society was white and color people were never even cared about. In this time of the story if a white man would have been beaten down by color man than the color men would have been in jail in less time that we can think. Eventually the story progresses and color people and white people still have their lines of differences. It was not good seen if a white person was to be with a color person. The fact that her relationship with Zach could only lead to a certain point, showed that society was very stuck up with discrimination that no color person could have ever dated a white person and society would be okay with this.
The entire relationship that expanded from both of this characters, were put together as a form to show the inequality of the times in the years when this book was written. There is no real shadow that could have portray inequality than this couple. Zach also stated that when he becomes a lawyer and when he has money and when things in society are okay, and then he will come back and start a relationship with Lily. This is very sad because we see that although many different laws and constitutions were changing, society was not rolling any closer to identify what to do. The environment was still painted with a border line between the white and the color. There was no further difference although many color and white people would talk to each other.
Eventually Lily understands that Color people and white people could not mix in the eyes of society. It was like mixing oil and water. Lily, however found the home she never had with this color people and decided that she would work hard to changed things in life. The same way that Zach had one day told her that there will be a time when they, meaning society, pronounce that color people can be mix with white people and that will be okay in the eyes of the entire world.