![]() ![]() Darlene may be pregnant, but Cholly isn't anxious to assume the role of a responsible father, and, more important, he feels the need to find his own father. After he and a young girl, Darlene, are caught having sex by a couple of derisive white men, Cholly strikes out on his own. Mentored by Blue Jack, an old drayman, and raised for a while by an old great aunt, Aunt Jimmy, Cholly was basically rootless for most of his life. What drives a man to rape his own daughter? Of all the hard-luck stories we've encountered so far in this novel, nothing can equal Cholly's story - especially his early years, when he was abandoned by his father before he was born, then wrapped in newspapers and thrown on a junk heap by his mother after he was born. Cholly Breedlove, however, doesn't play with his daughter instead, he rapes her during one of his drunken binges. The primer asks of the white father: Will you play with Jane? We suppose he does he is a loving, doting father. The father in the first-grade primer is physically strong so is Cholly Breedlove - and there the similarities end. ![]()
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