Her Sweet Jerome (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1960's and early 1970's
- Setting: The American South
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Jerome Franklin Washington, III, Mr. Jerome Franklin Washington, III
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, 1960’s, 1970’s, South or Southerners, Revolutions, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Social life, Books, Beauty, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mental illness, Ambition, Fire
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
The protagonist owns a small beauty shop in the South. She is a big, awkward woman with short arms that end in ham hands, plump molelike freckles down her cheeks, and a neck that is a squat roll of fat protruding behind her head as a big bump. To many people, she is anything but lovely.
The woman's trouble starts one day when Jerome, a neat and cute local schoolteacher, walks past the window of her shop. Although she is ten years his senior and knows very well that she should not desire him, she cannot resist the temptation of being called “Mrs. Jerome...
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