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Setting
Hurston begins the story with description of its setting that uses the same adjective repetitively: ‘‘It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement.’’ Such deliberate emphasis underscores the ‘blackness’ of the community (which is later named as Eatonville, Hurston's real-life hometown), defining how it is seen from the outside. Once the story gets underway, the characters’ race is not mentioned, though it remains implicitly significant. ‘‘The Gilded Six-Bits’’ takes place in a community...
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