Another story about racism? What sets this story apart from the others is the flirtatious almost positive appearance of the story, which correlates oppositely to the shocking ending. The story starts off with Lula and Clay being friendly and flirty with each other, both clearly seem to like each other. Clay, initially is put off by Lula's aggressiveness, but eventually starts to get into her as the story progresses.
Lula's character is a roller coaster of emotion; she starts off being relatively subdued but still aggressive and flirty, and as she sees that Clay is starting to feel attracted to her, turns wild and crazy. I'm not sure I really understand the significance of Lula's mentality. Clay eventually gets fed up with Lula's insanity and pompous attitude. Lula seems to be flirting with Clay so she has reason to kill him. She is trying to get a rise out of him so he will act on it.
At this time, minorities were starting to gain more love and freedom among the middle-class white communities, but this story shows that there was still incredible amounts of persecution and oppression. Lula is the embodiment of pure racism.
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