But by this time Malcolm had lost interest in her - because of Sophia. After he jilted her, she began drinking and taking drugs, and finally became a prostitute. Malcolm took Laura to dances at Roseland, against her grandmother's wishes, and in giving her a taste of ghetto life, he led her to her own destruction. Ostrowski's advice by now, however, Malcolm's goals had changed entirely. She told him there was no reason why he couldn't become a lawyer, despite Mr. She tried to encourage Malcolm to continue his education, but, of course, he paid no attention. She was a good student and planned to go to college. To Malcolm, Laura seemed different from the other Hill girls, whom he by now despised she was serious and quiet, and seemed less snobbish than the other girls. Rather than adjusting himself to Laura's world, Malcolm brings her into his. Laura, bright, ambitious and from the middle class, represents the world Malcolm rejects in favor of the ghetto and Sophia, his white girl friend, is a symbol of his success in the world of hipsters and hustlers. And his jilting of Laura for the white woman Sophia is perhaps the major turning-point of his life in Boston. Malcolm's brief relationship with the Hill girl Laura represents his last contact with the sort of "respectability" toward which Ella encouraged him.
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