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To Franklin Blake, Ezra Jennings’s lifelong suffering is clearly tied to his “foreign” racial background (in addition to his social isolation, the “terrible accusation” that haunts him, and his hideous appearance due to his opium addiction). Jennings’s suffering is a sort of credential—it proves to Franklin that the man’s desire to make amends with the world is genuine—but it is also a sign of the tragedy that befalls those with lives and traits outside the mainstream.
That said, while to contemporary readers it is clear that the tie between Jennings’s “mixture of some foreign race” and his difficulties in life…