The Rise of Maud Martha (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: About 1955
- Setting: Chicago
- Principal Characters: Maud Martha, Mrs. Phillips, Belva Brown
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Emotions, Accidents, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Widows or widowers, Bereavement or grief
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Story
“The Rise of Maud Martha,” a very brief and deceptively simple story, opens as a pastor observes the departure of a funeral procession and closes only a short time later, the moment Maud Martha begins crying as they lower her husband, Paul, into his grave. With the precision of the poet she is and the insight of the sensitive observer of human behavior she has always been, Gwendolyn Brooks joins the procession through the thoughts and observations of Maud Martha as she rides in the first car with her mother, Belva Brown, and Paul's mother, Mrs. Phillips. Each...
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