Truman+Stroud+-+a+product+of+his+time?

__ LEWIS:  __ PG:7 "How bout you boy? You got a daddy." Mr. Troud jokes and plays around with Lewis because it makes him feel young and makes him feel like a father fiqure because Lewis doesn't have a father at the time. I quess it reminds him of how maybe some people used to treat him because of the color of his skin and everything that he's been through makes him act that certain way toward him and his mother. __ MRS.POPE: __ Pg:7 He leaned over the counter toward my mother. "Fine looking woman like yourself," he said, "got to be a husband somewhere new, or old." Pg:13 "Who are you? Since she is old maybe it makes Mr.Troud feel like an authority fiqure. Also, he does these things because it makes him feel good since he went through alot since he was little.
 * BY:EVELIN,VALERIA,MARISELA**

All the reasons of why he does all this playing around is because he's lonely and it makes him feel happy like as if he's something now. His son also died so he acts like a father fiqure towards Lewis. He has been through may things like jim crow, civil rights movement, the great depression, racism and that's why he makes racist jokes. He's old and has lost everybody dear to him. I think his pride gets in the way because he doesn't show any emotions of him missing anybody, as if he's happy of being alone but deep inside he's not, he just doesn't want to show it.