He is torn between his racial identities again when he falls in love with a white woman but she eventually agrees to marry him and they have two children. At one point, he is inspired to move to the American South to find musical inspiration from "Negro" spirituals, but a violent lynching turns him against his own race. He becomes a cigar-maker in Atlanta, a gambler and musician in New York, and a wealthy white patron's private musician in Europe.
He is an extremely talented musician as well as a voracious reader and a skilled linguist. He is intelligent, cerebral, and spontaneous.
The narrator's central conflict in his life is whether or not he wants to embrace his African American roots or live as a white man - at the turn of the century, there was nothing in between.
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