The lawyer unpacked her briefcase, notepad, and case folder before she sat down at the table to complete her research for the afternoon. identify the set of domain-specific words from this sentence. unpacked, table notepad, afternoon briefcase, case folder before, down

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this

you should ask "yourself is it good enough? "

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.