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Is the story’s perspective on race relations ultimately pessimistic or optimistic? Why?

I understood from the story was that it talks about the ways in which relationships can be optimistic as well as pessimistic with the racial form. It shows the lives of Roberta and Twyla from a racial perspective, telling how they both treated each other and how they thought differently from each other but at the same time shared family themes and certain similar conditions. As at the beginning of the story they did not get along very well but little by little they began to form a friendship and in a certain way support each other both inside the asylum and when they leave and start a family.