The disruption of capitalism, unemployment, the arrival of new social organizations, and new demands brought many questions as to what was going to be the final result of this monstrosity. ... Mildred painted a picture of the racial discrimination that was going on at the time of World War II. ...
In a final attempt to push Delia out of the house, Sykes brings a live snake into their home. ... Zora Neale Hurston is able to utilize her experience as an African American woman in the early twentieth century to paint the picture of a society in which people were discriminated against based on their gender, or the color of their skin. ...
Willie enters the picture as a depersonalized, average-class black man who has just escaped work on a boat and needs a place to stay. ... In their final days, Willie tells her that "people don't mix races, they abandon them or pick them"(270). She returns to the island of her family, but as a final inadvertent act to prove her ignorance of self, she refers to the help as "the mulatto" and "Mary" and proceeds to abandon her elderly relatives to return to Paris with a seal-skin coat. ...
Celia: A Slave At the time slavery took place in the US, a devastating situation placed society to an intense debate and a fight between morality and tradition. Celia as the victim of this scenario will be the figure of sexual exploitation of owner and slave that will qu...
