In “The Wife of His Youth,” Charles Waddell Chesnutt wrote about the “Blue Vein Society.” Ryder, the main character in the story, is a biracial man who identifies as white because of the color of his skin. He had a striking resemblance to a white man and “his features were of a refined type, his hair was almost straight; he was always neatly dressed, his manners were irreproachable, and his morals above suspicion” (Chesnutt 4). It is because of his light skin color that he is able to avoid racial prejudice. The “Blue Vein Society” is said to be a club that does not discriminate against people of color but “by accident, combined perhaps with some natural affinity, the society consisted of individuals who were, generally speaking, more white