Penrod is socially insensitive, and modern readers should be duly offended by Tarkington's racist attitudes toward Jews and toward blacks, whom he describes as "beings in one of those lower stages of evolution." Two black brothers, Herman and Verman, are continuous targets of ridicule, and Tarkington.....
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