Violet Character Analysis

Kennedy and Micah's four-year-old daughter. Thanks to Kennedy's unwillingness to watch her language around her daughter, Violet sometimes curses. Violet adores Disney princesses and her grandmother, Ava, who throws lavish tea parties when they spend time together. Being so young, Violet doesn't have a firm grasp of how race functions in society: she desperately wants to be Princess Tiana for Halloween, even though Tiana is black, and she and Ruth have a frank and honest discussion about slavery when Ruth comes for dinner one night. Both Ruth and Ava see Violet as proof that hate and racism are learned things: Violet's questions about slavery are innocent and unassuming, and Ava points to Violet's games with a black girl at the playground as evidence of how far the United States has come in terms of race relations.