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Loretta Walker
Reginald is Loretta Walker’s husband. He’s a famous actor who plays a Black police officer on a popular television show. Stella doesn’t interact with him much, but he does help her carry groceries inside one day. After Loretta and Stella have a falling out, Stella tells her white friends about Reginald carrying her groceries. She lies and says that Reginald looked at her in a sexual way before leaving her house. Her comment sparks violence in the neighborhood, as the white residents start vandalizing the Walkers’ house shortly after Stella tells her friends the lie. Reginald and his family move away to escape their racist neighbors’ violence and hostility.
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Reginald Walker Character Timeline in The Vanishing Half
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Chapter 8
It soon becomes public knowledge that the new neighbors are Reginald and Loretta Walker and their young daughter. Everyone in Stella’s neighborhood knows who Reginald Walker...
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...came to Los Angeles not because she wanted to live in the city, but because Reginald had big dreams of becoming a famous actor. Stella privately reflects on the fact that...
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Chapter 9
A week after Christmas, Stella tells her white friends about a time that Reginald Walker helped her carry groceries into her kitchen. In reality, Reginald didn’t even glance at...
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