The Gilded Six-Bits (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Plot: Realism, psychological
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: Eatonville, Florida
- Principal Characters: Missie May Banks, Joe Banks, Otis D. Slemmons
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Pregnancy, Adultery, Greed, Florida
- Locales: Eatonville, FL
The Story
Newlyweds Joe and Missie May Banks frolic in their newfound marital bliss. Their Saturday afternoon routine is especially playful, as Joe comes home from his job at the local fertilizer plant lovingly to toss fifty-cent pieces at his young wife who has been busy preparing for his arrival. She has cleaned and scoured the house, its surroundings, and herself and has prepared Joe's bath water for him to do the same before they settle down to a long afternoon of pleasure.
This particular Saturday afternoon, after the usual tossing of the money and Missie May's...
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