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Wright says it is his cultural heritage to dislike jews because he has realized that he is inheriting the attitudes held by his parents to such an active degree that even his mother convinces him that it is a bad idea to resist conformity. At first Wright does not understand the difference between races, and when he refuses to sell a white woman a dog at a lower price than he wishes to do so, he later finds the dog dead. Rather than displaying active anger toward the white community, the mother, having already completely reformed, blames the boy for not selling the dog when he had the chance. In a sense the mother advises the boy to conform to resist the tension and problems that arise when they try to establish equality with another race. Wright does not know why he is being told to be inferior to whites, but as most young children do, he is blindly listening to what his mother says to better develop his image of the world. As such, when he is informed that he is supposed to dislike jews, he takes it as truth and does not question itto the degree that an individual of more advanced years might.