Raney In his novel Raney, Clyde Edgerton uses humor, sexuality and good diction in the form of arguing to show drastic changes in the character Raney from her previous sheltered life. Changes in Raney show her growth and development of new ideas toward sex, marriage and her own family. The novel Raney begins with an announcement of the engagement of Raney Bell and Charles Shepherd. Raney is a young white southern girl, not very well …showed first 75 words of 1024 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1024 total…beginning of the story. She knows that Charles doesn’t hate her family but that they aren’t always the most interesting people to talk to. Raney knows that some of her friends that are couples have a lot of the same problems her and Charles were going through. She is a lot more open minded later in the story and seems to have grown up quite a bit by the end of the story.