In the film Pinky, we saw the protagonist, Pinky, suffering a lot for revealing the fact that she is black despite her light-colored skin. Considering this leads us to the question of thinking: could she have chosen to actually pass as a white person, which is what her boyfriend wanted her to do when he visited her, and enjoy the white privileges. Of course, in the movie, there is the factor of her grandmother not wanting her to deny her own identity, but there are other ways to understand this problem. In the book “Passing”, the protagonist’s, Irene’s, friend Clare passed as a white woman to marry a white man. When Irene visited Clare in Chicago, Irene was also made to say that she is white even though she did not really want to. Because they have passed as white, they were, in fact, vigilant of others fearing that their identity might be revealed and they would lose “their” white privileges. Throughout the novel, Clare, who passed as white to enjoy the white privileges, wanted to get back to the black community; and although we don’t really know if it is true or not, she seemed to have an affection with another black person–Brian, Irene’s husband. This coheres well with what was said in Pinky: “one can only change his name, but never his inside.” Clare might have moved up in terms of her socioeconomic class, but inside she is always black, and it was shown in Passing that this element can have tragic results; because when her identity was found out by John, she had to face so much more racist comments, which was just like what Pinky faced by the police officers, which led to her death. The fact that Pinky had that experience with the police officers might really have been the reason she chose not to pass beside the responsibility of Mrs.Em– she did not want to face such racist situations directly in the North, or by her husband, that she chose not the pass. From comparing these two works, one conclusion, there can definitely be many others, we can draw is that although passing is a practice that can allow black people to move much on socioeconomic class, it does not have the ability to eradicate prejudice or racism, and more methods must be sought to achieve that.