
This essay therefore sets out to study the representation of the witch hunt’s impact on minority characters. Easy’s treachery, especially his awareness of it, “I made like I was friends with people and then I planned to do them dirt” (276), 1 fictionalizes the negative facets of social mechanics in a racist society.

1 Unless otherwise specified, all page references are to the 1992 (London: Serpent Tail) edition of A (.)Ģ Easy once again needs to find his way out of a situation beyond his control, although (as a trickster caught at his own game) of his own making through his fiscal dishonesty.
