Like One of the Family (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Childress
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Communication, Friendship, Harlem, Honesty, Domestic work or workers, Listening
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Mildred Johnson, a thirty-two-year-old African American woman, originally from the South, now living in a three-room apartment in New York City and earning her living doing housework for white families. Her character is developed in a series of one-sided conversations, primarily with her friend Marge. Many of these conversations concern Mildred’s experiences as a day maid in a variety of white homes. Mildred encounters many stereotypical assumptions about African Americans in these homes, but her responses are not what one would expect of a domestic...
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