Frantz and Kennedy go to meet up with Jude and Reese and Frantz ended up having a good time with them but not Stella. "He rolled away from her glumly and turned off the light. 'I knew they weren't your friends,' he said. 'What?' 'You don't have black friends,' he said. 'You don't like anybody black but me and we're not really friends are we?'" (Bennett 326). Stella didn't show much respect towards Jude when they went out and makes Frantz upset. He believes that she doesn't like any black people including him
On the way back to the lobby from taking care of Reese, Jude and Kennedy talk some more, "I'm not a negro,' she said. Jude laughed again, this time uneasily. 'Well your mother is,' she said. 'So?' 'So that makes you one too.' 'It doesn't make me anything,' she said. 'My father's white you know. And you don't get to show up and tell me what I am'"(Bennett 333). Kennedy can't except the fact that she is black. She grew up her whole life thinking she was white when she really wasn't.
Something that the character can't do
What effect do they have on others
Jude had an impact on Kennedy by causing her to question things about her mother. She confronts her mother, "She fumbled with her attache case, searching for her keys when she heard her daughter call, over her shoulder, 'You've never been to a place called Mallard, have you?'" (Bennett 287). Stella goes on to say she's never heard of a place like Mallard so Kennedy doesn't find out