Chesnutt’s Evolving Treatment of the Color Line Through Naturalism

Chesnut lives in the "color line" through the evolution of the color line behind the naturalism in "principle problems" and "the house behind the cedar" (Charles W. Chesnutt, well educated mulatto). Chesnutt's skin is very bright, sometimes mistaken for a white man. Chesnutt decided to call himself a black male, but in his work his character came back and forth on the color line and struggled with the world where they existed. The story of his young wife and other color lines, including short story "Principles" Chesnutt began exploring the available options apparently was published in the year before the house behind The Cedars.

Chesner's second most important novel "Youth's wife and other color stories" was published by Horton Mifflin in 1899. In the nine episodes of Ohio and North Carolina fiction, Chesnutt studied the sociological and psychological impact that Jim Crow's laws and practices have on white, black, and mixed ethnic communities. Like The Conjure Woman, he often uses elements of dialects and local colors. However, unlike other stories, many of his "young wives" are middle-class African Americans of mixed-race ethnicity. Among the "main question", "youth's wife", and "her Virginia mummy", Chesner is very ironic and sometimes ironically something ironically confronting the difficulties confronted by ethnically mixed individuals It reveals dark shadows in Africa. Strong biases by Americans. In fact, Chesnutt himself is a product of mixed race and his two grandfathers are white.

A woman. In 1900, Chesnutt published the second volume of short stories "The Wife of Youth" and "Other Stories of the Color Series". This is a story about the racial prejudice of black African Americans. Chesnutt 's short stories, especially The Conjure Woman' s novels, are praised by critics about their innovative structure and the combination of realism and fantasy. Chesnutt depicts the physical and psychological difficulties that African Americans suffer using African-American traditions and dialects, as Jules McAdoo showed overwhelming suffering in "The Goophered Grapevine" I will. It shows extraordinary power and creativity to protect their lives and their communities. His grown literary achievement has made him abandon his shorthand business he founded in 1890 and concentrate on writing. In 1900, he published his first novel "House behind Cedar"