identify and explain a specific insight you gained from reading Nella Larsen’s novel about how gender intersects with race and socioeconomic class in ways that impact people’s treatment, opportunities, or sense of self? What is the author trying to get the reader to see and understand? How does your insight about Helga’s life during the Harlem Renaissance translate to help you see new things, or see familiar things in new ways, in the world we live in today?
