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Imitation of Life is a flawed story: maudlin, unrealistic, shopworn and naïve, but it deals frankly with one of the most basic ironies of U.S. society, and that is the symbiosis between Europe and Africa in our culture: white and black.

And at its core is an old primal fear of racist society; Blacks passing for Whites. We may not fear this so much as in the past, but it does make people of all races deeply uncomfortable to talk about. Perhaps that is what gives this story so much power in spite of (or perhaps because of) its glaring flaws.

Baldwin tells the story as a first person narrator, so we tend to identify the main character with the author of the story.

But that would be a mistake. David, is not James Baldwin, not a hero or a victim and not able to tell the truth. It is for us to discover that David is, in mo