Alternative Ending to "The Comet"
This alternative ending of "The Comet" by W.E.B Dubois, follows the scene where Jim (the lower-class black man) and Julia (the well-off white woman) are interrupted by the sound of a car and people. In this altered version, Julia's father and other white men, excluding Julia's love, Fred (who is nonexistent in my version), arrive and reunite with her but are also met with Jim. "My daughter!" he sobbed. "Are you well? Unharmed?" "Unharmed!" she said. "And this man here?" he asked, encircling her drooping form with one arm and turning toward the Negro. Suddenly he stiffened and his hand flew to his hip. "Why!" he snarled. "It's---a--black man--Julia! Has he---has he dared----" Julia lifted her head and looked at her father curiously and then uttered confidently, "He has dared---all, to rescue me and I thank him much." She looked to the black man standing alone, meeting the eye of the human...