Bob Stone

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Bob Stone is a central white plantation heir whose fraught relationship with the Black protagonist drives the racial and emotional conflict in Jean Toomer’s short story "Blood-Burning Moon."

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
short story character
appearsIn Blood-Burning Moon NERFINISHED
Cane NERFINISHED
appearsInCollection Cane NERFINISHED
conflictWith Tom Burwell NERFINISHED
createdBy Jean Toomer NERFINISHED
ethnicity white
fictionalUniverse Blood-Burning Moon NERFINISHED
firstPublicationOfWork 1923
gender male
hasRelationshipWith Louisa NERFINISHED
Tom Burwell NERFINISHED
literaryMovementContext Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction foil to Tom Burwell
source of racial conflict
nationality American
occupation planter
roleInWork antagonist
central character
romanticInterestIn Louisa NERFINISHED
setting rural Georgia
socialClass plantation heir
themeInvolvement Southern plantation legacy
interracial desire
power and domination
racial violence
racism
timePeriod early 20th century American South

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"Blood-Burning Moon" notableCharacter Bob Stone
subject surface form: Blood-Burning Moon