Importance of American South

Naxos, Georgia is where Helga Crane was teaching in the beginning of Quicksand. The school where she is employed considers itself a progressive Negro school, since the educators are focused on reforming the black children and molding them into citizens who can behave like white people. This improved education will supposedly make them more civilized and give them a better life as adults. Naxos is the exception, and Helga Crane sees the hypocrisy that exists in the attitudes of the staff there, since they are not truly accepting the children for who they are, but trying to "fix" them. She describes Naxos as having "unhuman loveliness," with its avenues, trees and parks.