Analysis Of The Gilded Six Bits

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Nichole Duncan
Professor Engel
English 1302
July 23, 2015

The Gilded Six-Bits

The story is told from a third person limited point of view. This is important because it keeps the suspense alive for the reader. This particular mode of telling events keeps the reader at the same level of information as the characters. For instance, we find out that Missie Mae has been unfaithful at the same time her husband surprises her and finds out. a short story written in 1933 by Zora Neale Hurston, is tale about forgiveness. The story takes place in a small African-American town of Eatonville, Florida, in the early 1930s. It is a complex tale of love, desire, indiscretion, anger, fear, uncertainty, disappointment, bewilderment, need, reconciliation, and finally, acceptance. The main
His lot is a limited one, as Hurston makes clear in her opening reference to the couple 's life in a mostly black town whose economy is driven by Joe 's employer, the local fertilizer plant. Still, the couple 's economic situation doesn 't stop Joe from indulging in such playful behavior as throwing half dollars at his wife, an analysis from the University of South Florida suggests. This quality enables Joe to forgive Missie May for straying, which Hurston makes doubly ironic by waiting until the last line to reveal his surname.

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Missie May 's character is among the most complex in "The Gilded Six-Bits," whose writing followed the breakup of Hurston 's rocky first marriage in 1931 (which ended after just four years, the university 's website notes.) Missie May 's claims of Slemmons 's jewelry looking better on Joe are belied by her own ambivalence about staying in the marriage. This feeling is consistent with the story 's main theme of appearances not being what they seem, Gorman says. However, the realization of Slemmons ' own phoniness is enough to send Missie May back to her loyal husband.

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