Feeling threatened, Will confronts Clarence to “protect” Addie’s reputation. Will and his best friend Clete are inside the Two-Knock, a speakeasy, when Will’s crush, Addie, enters with a young African American man, Clarence Banks. From the onset of his narrative, Will feels pressure from the white community to adhere to cultural expectations, which is evident in the action that begins his narrative. Will’s self-awareness serves as his source of conflict as he navigates his sociocultural context. Wasn’t particularly bad either, but I had potential” (Latham, 2017, p. When the reader first encounters Will, he confesses, “I wasn’t good when the trouble started. Like Rowan, William’s family is upper-middle class and mixed-race his white father owns the Victory Victrola Shop in a developing downtown Tulsa, and his full-blooded Osage mother receives oil inheritance checks from profits earned from pumping oil on Osage land. The second narrative belonging to William Tillman is set 100 years before Rowan’s narrative in the weeks leading up to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
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