Winifred

Ezra Jennings is an especially different character. As mentioned previously, it is a series of things that defines Jennings as an “other,” not only his appearance. The picture here is taken from All the Year Round of a poem that follows The Moonstone in the same publication. The subject of the poem is that of a dying and aging woman. She is presented as though she is beautiful yet fading, much in the same way Jennings is presented to the readers of The Moonstone when first introduced to him. The poem is hauntingly beautiful and glorifies the otherness of death and dying and as an extension, glorifies the otherness that is Ezra Jennings in all his mixed race, ill and dying individualism. The process of dying is one that a person must go through alone and, in Harper’s Weekly magazine, that is depicted and pushed thoroughly through separation of race depictions. However, in All the Year Round, death is personified so that the person that is dying is not alone or separate. This was an aspect of Ezra Jennings life that Mossman failed to acknowledge in his argument. It is important to note that he was a dying, ill man because this was another way that he was categorized as “other” in the novel. The connection of “Winifred” to Ezra Jennings life added the much-needed support for his difference that was lacking in Harper’s Weekly’s publication of this segment of The Moonstone.