Through the experience of reading this short story, we can depict the characters' past experiences.

There are two incompatible personalities in the passage, Mrs. Chestney, the mother, which represents the transition from the old South, and Julian, the son, who represents the transition of the new South.

Due to the fact that Mrs. Chestney was the granddaughter of a governor, it purely conveys that she ranked high in wealth and position. This purely expresses her growing experience in a southern manner and to behave in a gentile southern manner.

In relation to integration, Mrs. Chestney dismisses the plight of blacks with a southern response, "They should rise, yes, but on their own side of the

There is a repetition of the words "meet yourself coming and going", in which she implicates her kind, as the party responsible for the tension between black and whites. In fact, what she really means is that, "we dominated this race of people", and feels threatened by it. Also, Mrs. Chestney truly meets her match when the black woman who boards the bus with her son refuses her charity. Julian becomes overjoyed when he notices that the woman's hat is identical to his mother's. Thus, Mrs. Chestney fears materialize- she truly "meets herself coming and going".

In conclusion, Mrs. Chestney was trying to make the past present and that caused many conflicts between her son and herself. Since she was obsessed with her past way of living, she was trying to convince her son to follow her idiosyncrasy, but

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Approximate Word count = 541
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)