What Is The Plot Of The Gilded Six-Bits

Overall, the short story displays a great way of using irony by Zora Neale Hurston. It may be how Missie May shows betrayal when she cheats on Joe or how her undying love and loyalty present the theme of marriage by making sure Joe’s needs are met. Joe shows representations of themes as he forgives Missie May when she thinks he don’t love her “no mo.” (212) Otis D. Slemmons, reminds the reader that appearances are not what they may seem.

Zora Neale Hurston’s short story "Sweat" takes place in the 1920s in a small African American community in southern Florida. The story takes a look at a woman dominated by her husband, a common issue for many wives in the south during this time. Delia Jones, the protagonist in the story, is a hard-working woman who has bought her own home and supported her husband for fifteen years by taking in the laundry of white folks from the next town over. Delia’s husband Sykes does not value her or the work she does to support the both of them. Sykes has abused his wife for fifteen years and takes no shame in parading around his fat mistress for all to see. Sykes wants to get rid of Delia and take everything she’s ever worked for. Delia, though

One of the main round characters is the widow, the father’s new young bride. She was in her twenties, where as the father was in his fifties. She might even be portrayed as a gold-digger. Dictionary.com defines this as a woman who associates with or marries a many chiefly for material gain. This was definitely the case with this story. The widow was described as a ravishing beauty when in her twenties. The family sat and watched as the father purchased lavishing presents for his new wife. When the father died from a stroke, the family asked about the key to his cupboard, where the father hoarded his money. The widow claimed not to know anything about such a key or cupboard. The family finally found the key and opened it. They found a few notes and only five thousand pounds, which the widow inherited. They wondered what had happened to the fortune. As the mother had predicted, the young bride would leave them all “without a bean” (Mahfouz, 92). Now with no education and little money left, the widow went to live with her parents. The youngest son, who was the person being sued for maintenance, wondered if his father’s young bride’s youthfulness and beauty had “withstood the passage of time” (Mahfouz, 90)? At the time of the lawsuit, now in her forties, the widow was over-weight and over time had lost her sense of beauty. The lawyer stated

Society is considerably the unbeatable illusionist as what we want to see is not consistent to what is truly their. Sometimes when you think you are looking at the affluent with their lavish gold life,underneath that it is a counterfeit as there is a rusty iron soul which is confined by the fraudulent gold .The Gilded Age was a seamless time in history as everyone was living in new luxuries and life just seemed magnificent and majestic for what has been seen in the past decade. All of this was just a whitewash on what true society actually was which was a crumbling economy and a hidden poverty rate. What hid the genuine but poverty-stricken society was that mainstream society itself was becoming more risque and unlawful.the new culture found drinking illicit boozes and carousing with false loves more pleasurable. Due to this new culture many things were lost in this simulation of lust and a bootlegged society such as intimacy and loyalty . In the story “ The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald wrote the truth of the gilded age into his story. The effects of the gilded age are seen throughout the book in Gatsby’s mansion, Gatsby, and Daisy. As soon as the golden gleam tarnishes and the cheap metal once looking swank disappears it shows that all they want is wealth and corruption.

In The Gilded Six-Bits, Zora Neale Hurston utilizes a few of distinctive procedures to characterize Joe and Missy May, the primary couple all through

In “The Gilded Six-Bits,” Zora Neale Hurston uses several techniques to characterize Joe and Missy May, the main couple throughout the story. Hurston uses her own life experiences to characterize Joe and Missy May and their marriage. She also shows their character development through her writing styles and techniques, which show reactions and responses between Joe and Missy May to strengthen the development of their relationship. Hurston supports her character development through her writing style, her characters dialect, and includes experiences from her own life to portray a sense of reality to her character’s personalities.

Throughout the story. Joe gives coins to Missie May. What is the significance of the silver dollars at the beginning of the story? Contrast this with Joe’s meaning when he leaves Missie May the gilded coin on the table. How has the significance of the silver dollars changed at the end of the story?

They were both taken in by his slick ways. "The lesson has been costly but because the foundation upon which the marriage was built has been strong, the marriage has survived.  Missie and Joe genuinely love each other and both have enough courage, determination, and trust in each other to weather the storm" (Howard 152). The marriage was built on a strong reality.  They were both taken in by Slemmons (slimy), but they had to remember that all they really needed was each other.  Joe remarks, "That was the best part of life - going home to Missie May.  Their white-washed house, the mock battles on Saturday, the dinner and ice cream parlor afterwards, church on Sunday nights when Missie outdressed any woman in town - all, everything was right" (2091). Robert Bone, in his book Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story says, "Hurston's sole attempt to deal with the urban scene, depicts the self in jeopardy from false, urban values.  The 'Gilded Six-Bits' brings the theme full circle" (138).  Missie and Joe have to, and do, get back to their original simple ways of showing affection for each other.  Performing the little rituals they did before being dazzled by Slemmons, and his false outward appearance.

The relationship of Joe and Janie which Hurston uses shows a clear example of perception of happiness not always holding true. To someone exposed to only the outside of the relationship, such as Mrs. Tony Robbins, only saw the acceptable parts of the relationship. Yet when Joe and Janie accompany each other

In “The Six Gilded Bits” we meet Joe and Misse Mae, newlyweds. They are young, in love and exceptionally happy with their life. They have lived a modest life in a small house “but there was something happy about it”. (Hurston 1) We meet Misse Mae first as she is

Zora Neale Hurston, author of the Gilded Six Bits, has a very unique writing style. The artistry in her story makes it a pleasant, easy read for any audience. The title suggests the story is based around money; but rather if one were to dig deeper the reality of the story is being told around the playfulness of money. Character disposition, an idealistic dialect, and the ability to work past an issue all work together to prove that Joe and Missie May’s lives are not strictly revolved around money.

This past week we watched a short-clip from the movie “Gangs of New York”. This video was set during the time period we know today as “The Gilded Age”. There were many examples that were shown in the short-clip that were showing racism, immigration, urbanization, and politics. After Civil War came to an end, the United States of America had lost about 25 million. Many European countries thought, the land of America could be there new home. It was mostly Irish who had come to the United States. As soon as the Irish came, they soon became the victms of rascism. When they arrived, the “gangs” were handing them tweed cards, which said vote for this person. If they did not vote for this person they would not get their basic rights. On the other side, I they would vote for the selected leader, they would get bribed with food, house, and work to ensure that they get there vote. These politicians would use any situation like fires, hunger to help get the votes and contribute to the corruption. An example, in “The Gangs of New York” when the fire broke out, the politicians arrived immediately, and at first hid the fire hydrant, so he could appear to be the hero instead of extinguishing the fire. Corruption started to spread all over during this time period, just so they could get the votes

1. The themes that I saw emerging from the text as I read the story was that the sense of wealth, ends up taking things away that Charlie Wales had before the stock market crash and after the increasing of the stocks. The next theme that stood out to me was the way Charlie was feeling when he looked at his daughter, the feeling of being a proud father. 2. Some of the themes that popped out at me in “The Gilded Six-Bits” was the fact that the characters were in a state of poverty.

The author of A Pair of Silk Stockings explores female roles based on what other people believe due to stereotypes. In this short story Mrs. Sommers finds $15 which is a sizable about of money to her in New York. She and her family are on the poorer side of New York. At first Mrs. Sommers has no clue on what she should do the money she had just come to. She is thinking about her children and that they could use new skirls because she had seen a beautiful new pattern in a market window, or caps for her boys and sailor-caps for her girls (Chopin 1). She thought of them due to the fact that that is what mothers and wives do in the 1800’s, they but their children and husband before thinking of themselves. She thought back to the time when she wasn’t

In the stories “The Jewelry” by Guy de Maupassant, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the female characters are unequal and less important than the men in society. The duties of women during this time period did not consist of much more than seeing to her husband’s needs and caring for the home and children. The authors show the lack of independence women were allowed in the 1800s, especially in marriage. The stories express women’s cry for equality and their feelings of entrapment in their marriage. Each story elaborates on the importance of social class in the 19th century, how women were presented in society, and how society