They get married and have a daughter, Kennedy, who is considered white. Although Stella is light skin, the way she acts at work lets Blake believe that she is white. Later on, she leaves right away and runs away with her boss who’s a rich white man, Blake Sanders, without telling her sister. Even though Stella acted white, she hated her skin color way before her job since she was raped by Mr. Stella gets the job, but this is the start of her identity loss of being black. This is the first time that Stella “acts white” to get the job. When she arrives in New Orleans with her twin, she tries for a secretary job. So, Desiree and Stella run away from Mallard to New Orleans. Dupont rapes Stella multiple times and nothing is said. Following their father’s death, Stella and Desiree have to drop out of school and start working for the wealthy family, the Dupont’s. The white men claimed that Leon was writing crude letters to a white woman, but he is illiterate. Leon Vignes, the twins’ dad, was stabbed by five white men, then when he was in recovery, they shot him in the hospital.
Everyone in Mallard has light skin, but this does not mean that outside of the town racism does not exist. The town of Mallard is a special place, it is a town that exists outside of racism in the 1940’s, where the book takes place. This is the town where two twins were in, Stella and Desiree, by their parent Leon and Adele Vignes. First, we have the town Mallard, which is now known as Palmetto. The Vanishing Half, written by Brit Bennett is a story of duality and identities. The Case: The Vanishing Half and Real Life Stories ( Brit Bennett’s interview where she goes more in depth about what she wanted her story to tell.) 15 The Case: The Vanishing Half told by Stella
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