After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday | After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday

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Author: Wilsonia Benita Driver
First Published: 1971
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: April in the late 1960's
Setting: Indianapolis
Principal Characters: Sandy, Winston, Anthony Smith
Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
Subjects: African Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Love or romance, Antiheroes, Substance abuse, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Drug addiction or addicts, Heroin
Locales: Indianapolis, IN

As the story opens, Sandy has gone indignantly to the bank to correct what she believes to be a bank error showing her checking account to be three hundred dollars overdrawn. To her humiliation, the bank officer confronts her with five checks—all bearing the signature of Winston, the man with whom she lives. She reacts to the officer's condemning stare with a stupor of silence and immobility, so that someone must be called to drive her home. Ironically, Anthony Smith, Winston's drug connection, arrives and Sandy rides silently home while contemplating the first...

After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday | After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday

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