Narrows Anne Petry
... Even a thousand years later we see impressions of Shakespeare’s work in Anne Petry’s The Narrows. ... Critics consider Petry’s characters Link and Camilo to resemble the work of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. ... Petry provides multiple instances demonstrating Link’s unstable emotions and frustrations to exemplify Link’s infatuation, not love affair, for Camilo. ... Petry used great skill when implementing her “unconscious racism.” Extremely inconspicuous, it is very hard to pick up on Petry’s insinuations of racism. ... How likely is a mix-race relationship during the time period of Petry’s The Narrows? As stated before, Petry often hints at unconscious racism imbedded in the minds of her characters.