Originally posted by Scarlett:
I just reread the novel not long ago and he made the midwife throw it in the furnace because it was Irish!
The novel explains that the midwife didn't understand what Luca meant by his choice of words, "race" (whether that meant the baby was part Irish, OR if meant the baby's mother was a whore, OR if it meant that it sprang from Luca's own loins). There was no explanation of
WHY Luca had the baby killed, other than the race thing.
Originally posted by daoke:
i do not know why Italians and Irish hate and look down upon each other
Here, in the New York City area, there is a large number of marriages between Italian and Irish.
