The partner is a man at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, a firm that recruits at Yale. During a recruitment dinner with Sonia, the partner makes the racist insinuation that Sonia and other students admitted thanks to affirmative action policies aren’t as smart as their white counterparts. He refuses to back down later, when Sonia calls him out on his racism. A tribunal at Yale Law eventually gets the firm to apologize to Sonia, and the incident garners national attention.
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The Partner Character Timeline in My Beloved World
The timeline below shows where the character The Partner appears in My Beloved World. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 19
...& Trowbridge. A Princeton friend, Scott, encourages Sonia to attend the dinner. At dinner, the partner asks Sonia if she believes in affirmative action. He insinuates that minorities can’t be as...
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...sparks interest across the school and eventually, the country. Sonia is glad to bring the partner’s behavior to light, but she also wants a career in law—she doesn’t want to be...
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